ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2016
Invited Commentary: Troubling Trends in Birth Weight.
Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Regional trends in birth weight in low- and middle-income countries 2013-2018.Reproductive health · 2020Observational
- An epigenetic association of malformations, adverse reproductive outcomes, and fetal origins hypothesis related effects.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2018Review
- Trends in Fetal Growth Between 2000 to 2014 in Singleton Live Births from Israel.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Catov et al. Respond to "Troubling Trends in Birth Weight".American journal of epidemiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Birth weight is a strong predictor of the health of newborns. Consequently, the report by Catov et al. in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2016;183(1):15-23), in which they showed downward trends in birth weights in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hospital from 1997 to 2011, raises concerns. The widening gap reported between birth weights of babies born to white and African-American women could correspond to a widening gap in actual health outcomes. However, if the relation between birth weight and health outcomes is not causal, these trends may be epiphenomena of limited concern.
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