Birth outcomes across the spectrum of maternal age: dissecting aging effect versus confounding by social and medical determinants

• Main Authors: Bolanle Olapeju (Author), Xiumei Hong (Author), Guoying Wang (Author), Amber Summers (Author), Irina Burd (Author), Tina L. Cheng (Author), Xiaobin Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Given the trend of increasing maternal age and associated adverse reproductive outcomes in the US, this study aimed to assess whether this association is due to an independent aging or confounded by sociodemographic, biomedical, or behavioral determinants in a predominantly Black...