ArticleAmerican journal of public health2007
Disparities in infant mortality: what's genetics got to do with it?
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- Association between infant mortality and community social vulnerability in the USA: a cross-sectional study.BMJ public health · 2025Article
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- Health Insurance and Differences in Infant Mortality Rates in the US.JAMA network open · 2023Article
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- Midwives' and Other Perinatal Health Workers' Perceptions of the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis in the United States.Journal of midwifery & women's health · 2023Article
- Neonatal neuropalliative care.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2023Review
- Racial variations of adverse perinatal outcomes: A population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada.PloS one · 2022Article
- Developmental Origins of Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Black U.S. Women.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Maternal nativity and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes among Black women residing in California, 2011-2017.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
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- Social disadvantage and its effect on maternal and newborn health.Seminars in perinatology · 2021Review
- If it's important, teach us: accountability in education on structural racism.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Explaining the Black-White Disparity in Preterm Birth: A Consensus Statement From a Multi-Disciplinary Scientific Work Group Convened by the March of Dimes.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2021Review
- Race and Genetics in Congenital Heart Disease: Application of iPSCs, Omics, and Machine Learning Technologies.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Review
- A Prematurity Collaborative Birth Equity Consensus Statement for Mothers and Babies.Maternal and child health journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
Since 1950, dramatic advances in human genetics have occurred, racial disparities in infant mortality have widened, and the United States' international ranking in infant mortality has deteriorated. The quest for a "preterm birth gene" to explain racial differences is now under way. Scores of papers linking polymorphisms to preterm birth have appeared in the past few years. Is this strategy likely to reduce racial disparities? We reviewed broad epidemiological patterns that call this approach into question. Overall patterns of racial disparities in mortality and secular changes in rates of prematurity as well as birth-weight patterns in infants of African immigrant populations contradict the genetic theory of race and point toward social mechanisms. We postulate that a causal link to class disparities in health exists.
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