Racial disparities in infant mortality: what has birth weight got to do with it and how large is it?

• Päätekijät: O'Neill Erin K (Tekijä), Fang Fu (Tekijä), Gage Timothy B (Tekijä), DiRienzo A Gregory (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: BMC, 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>It has been hypothesized that birth weight is not on the causal pathway to infant mortality, at least among "normal" births (i.e. those located in the central part of the birth weight distribution), and that US racial dispa...