ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2010
Perinatal outcomes among foreign-born and US-born Chinese Americans, 1995-2000.
Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Among Immigrant Women in the US and Europe: A Systematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2017Pooled it
- Neonatal mortality among disaggregated Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Risk of Stillbirth Among Foreign-Born Mothers in the United States.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
- The Racial Configuration of Parent Couples and Premature Birth: an Analysis of the Utah Population Database.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Racial variations of adverse perinatal outcomes: A population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada.PloS one · 2022Article
- Comparison of adverse perinatal outcomes between Asians and Caucasians: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Comparing Birth Outcomes in Hawai'i between US- and Foreign-Born Women.Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health · 2018Article
- Disparities in Prenatal Care Utilization Among U.S. Versus Foreign-Born Women with Chronic Conditions.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2017Article
- Maternal Birthplace is Associated with Low Birth Weight Within Racial/Ethnic Groups.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Prenatal care and risk of preterm birth among foreign and US-born mothers in Michigan.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2012Article
- The paternal component of the "healthy migrant" effect: fathers' natality and infants' low birth weight.Maternal and child health journal · 2011Article
- Maternal morbidity and perinatal outcomes among foreign-born Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans in Washington State, 1993-2006.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2011Article
- Interethnic mating and risk for preterm birth among Arab-American mothers: evidence from the Arab-American Birth Outcomes Study.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2011Article
- The differential association between education and infant mortality by nativity status of Chinese American mothers: a life-course perspective.American journal of public health · 2011Article
- Birth outcomes of Koreans by birthplace of infants and their mothers, the United States versus Korea, 1995-2004.Journal of Korean medical science · 2010Article
- Perinatal outcomes for Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander mothers of single and multiple race/ethnicity: California and Hawaii, 2003-2005.American journal of public health · 2010Article
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Abstract
This paper examines nativity differences in adverse perinatal outcomes of Chinese-American mothers. Singleton live births to US-resident Chinese women (150,620 foreign-born, 15,040 US-born) and a random sample of 150,620 non-Hispanic White mothers were selected from 1995 to 2000 national linked birth/infant death certificate files. Associations between maternal nativity status and adverse perinatal outcomes were assessed using multivariable logistic regressions. Compared to US-born Chinese mothers, foreign-born Chinese mothers were less likely to be unmarried, teen mothers, have a non-Hispanic White or other race partner, be rural residents, and more likely to be less educated, or utilize prenatal care inadequately. Controlling for these factors, foreign-born Chinese-American mothers had significantly lower risks for low birth weight, preterm birth, and small-for-gestational age, whereas risks for infant mortality, neonatal mortality, and post-neonatal mortality did not differ significantly from those of infants of US-born Chinese mothers. Chinese Americans exhibited clear nativity differentials for adverse birth outcomes.
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