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Birth outcomes of Asian‐Indian‐Americans
Author(s) -
Alexander G.R.,
Wingate M.S.,
Mor J.,
Boulet S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijgo.2007.02.017
Subject(s) - birth certificate , medicine , demography , ethnic group , parity (physics) , birth weight , low birth weight , infant mortality , gestational age , live birth , pregnancy , pediatrics , population , environmental health , physics , particle physics , sociology , biology , anthropology , genetics
Objective : This study examines the maternal characteristics and birth outcomes of infants of U.S. resident Asian‐Indian‐American (AIA) mothers and compares those to infants of U.S. resident Whites and African‐American (AA) mothers. Methods : Single live births to U.S. resident mothers with race/ethnicity coded on birth certificate as AIA, non‐Hispanic White, or non‐Hispanic AA were drawn from NCHS 1995 to 2000 U.S. Linked Live Birth/Infant Death files. Results : Compared to AAs or Whites, AIAs have the lowest percentage of births to teen or unmarried mothers and mothers with high parity for age or with low educational attainment. After taking these factors into account, AIA had the highest risk of LBW, small‐for‐gestational age and term SGA births but a risk of infant death only slightly higher than Whites and far less than AAs. Conclusions : The birth outcomes of AIAs do not follow the paradigm that more impoverished minority populations should have greater proportions of low birth weight and preterm births and accordingly greater infant mortality rates.