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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
The health disadvantages of infants with teenage mothers are well documented. Because poor and minority women are disproportionately represented among teen mothers, differences in infant health by maternal age may reflect family background (pre-childbearing) characteristics rather than the effects of maternal age. To control for differences in family background, the authors compared birth outcomes and maternal behaviors that could affect fetal or infant health among sisters in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-1988). They compared sisters who had first births at different ages in order to study the relation between maternal age and low birth weight, prenatal care, smoking and alcohol use during pregnancy, breast feeding, and well-child visits. The authors found evidence that maternal family background accounts for many of the health-related disadvantages of the firstborn infants of teenage mothers. The findings suggest that disadvantaged black primiparous women in their twenties may be an important and possibly underemphasized target population for interventions designed to reduce excess black low birth weight and infant mortality rates.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0002-9262
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
137
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
213-25
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-African Americans, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Alcohol Drinking, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Breast Feeding, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Child Welfare, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Confounding Factors (Epidemiology), pubmed-meshheading:8452126-European Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Family, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Hispanic Americans, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Infant, Low Birth Weight, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Logistic Models, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Longitudinal Studies, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Maternal Age, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Maternal Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Minority Groups, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Parity, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Poverty, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Pregnancy Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Pregnancy in Adolescence, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Prenatal Care, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Smoking, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-Socioeconomic Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8452126-United States
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Maternal youth or family background? On the health disadvantages of infants with teenage mothers.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Public Health Policy and Administration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-2029.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't