Open AccessAssociations of Maternal Age- and Parity-Related Factors With Trends in Low-Birthweight Rates: United States, 1980 Through 2000
Author(s) -
Quanhe Yang,
Sander Greenland,
W. Dana Flanders
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2004.049312
Subject(s) - parity (physics) , demography , singleton , medicine , pregnancy , physics , particle physics , sociology , biology , genetics
We assessed the effects of changes in the maternal age-parity distribution and age-and parity-specific low-birthweight rates on low-birthweight trends in the United States.