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September 2007, Vol 97, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1541
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.114843

LETTER

DISPARITIES IN ADVERSE BIRTH OUTCOMES MAY REFLECT INFLUENCE OF STRESS

Jennifer Holtzman, DDS, MPH

The author is with the School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Jennifer Holtzman, University of Southern California, School of Dentistry, 925 W 34th Street, Room 4202, Los Angeles, CA 90089 (e-mail: jholtzma@usc.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

I am pleased that the recently published article by Tucker et al.1 has brought further attention to the racial disparities of pregnancy-related health outcomes. Dramatic racial disparities exist not only in the risk of death from pregnancy complications but also in the incidence of preterm low-birthweight babies and infant mortality. In the United States, a total of 17.6% of Black babies born to US-born mothers are born preterm (< 37 weeks gestation) as compared with 10.2% of White babies, and 13 % of Black babies born to US-born mothers are born with low birthweights (< 2500 g) as compared with . . . [Full Text]




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