Race, ethnicity and birth-weight: Hawaii 1983 to 1986.
Hawaii Med J
; 51(9): 242-6, 249, 255, 1992 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-1428855
ABSTRACT
A study of racial/ethnic-specific mean infant birth-weights reported on 1968 to 1972 live birth-weight certificates for Oahu, Hawaii is reviewed here. The 1983 to 1986 data confirm those earlier results:
(a) The Hawaiian group is significantly heavier in mean birth-weights than other cohorts during the preterm period (33 to 36 weeks gestational age); (b) statistically significant differences also were present in mean birth-weights for the term and post-term periods (37 to 45 weeks gestational age); and (c) the ranking of cohorts from heaviest to lightest in mean birth-weights is Caucasian, Hawaiian, Japanese and Filipino respectively. The data raises 2 questions (1) Which birth-weight standards are most applicable for Asian and Pacific Islanders; and (2) what are the implications of the race/ethnic-specific mean birth-weight differences relative to mortality, morbidity and developmental outcome?
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Peso ao Nascer
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Grupos Raciais
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Asia
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1992
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Article