RESUMO
Using a computer-stored database, birthweights and related variables over 25,000 infants born in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) were analysed retrospectively. Only after allowing for maternal height, did the difference between mean birthweights of Dutch and Asian infants disappear, whereas Negroid and Mediterranean infants continued to show respectively lower and higher means than the others. These results confirm that the birthweight standards presently used are inappropriate for detection of deviant weight in non-Dutch groups.
Assuntos
Peso ao Nascer , Etnicidade , População Negra , Estatura , Bases de Dados Factuais , Feminino , Humanos , Incidência , Recém-Nascido de Baixo Peso , Recém-Nascido , Marrocos/etnologia , Países Baixos/epidemiologia , Paridade , Valores de Referência , Suriname/etnologia , Turquia/etnologiaRESUMO
A retrospective study of labor in immigrants, subdivided into Blacks, Asians and Mediterraneans (Turks and Moroccans) and autochthonous Dutch in Amsterdam over a 10-year period showed definite differences. The second stage was shortest in Blacks and Mediterraneans but they sustained perineal tears and episiotomies less frequently. Differences in positions at birth were small except for occipito-posterior position which was very rare in Asians and Mediaterraneans. The rate of cesarean section was highest and that of instrumental vaginal delivery lowest in Blacks, and latter being highest in Asians. Retained placenta occurred less often in immigrants than in Dutch.