ArticleMaternal and child health journal2019
Low Birth Weight Among Infants Born to Black Latina Women in the United States.
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- Examining the Role of Race in Maternal Morbidities and Adverse Infant Birth Outcomes in Florida (2004 to 2022) - A Retrospective Exploratory Analysis.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Latinas and Maternal and Child Health: Research, Policy, and Representation.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Review
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- The Relationship Between Hispanic Ethnicity and Outcomes for Infants Born Extremely Preterm.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- The Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States: Our Black Identity, Our Health and Well-Being.American journal of public health · 2024Article
- The Effect of Maternal Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity on Macrosomia Among Infants Born in the United States.Cureus · 2023Article
- Infant Mortality Rates Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Latinx Women: The Effect of Black Race.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Article
- Socially Assigned Race and the Health of Racialized Women and Their Infants.Health equity · 2022Article
- Risk of Extreme, Moderate, and Late Preterm Birth by Maternal Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity.The Journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Resilience During Pregnancy by Race, Ethnicity and Nativity: Evidence of a Hispanic Immigrant Advantage.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2021Article
- The Health of Hispanic Children from Birth to Emerging Adulthood.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2021Article
- Perinatal care experiences among racially and ethnically diverse mothers whose infants required a NICU stay.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Beyond Obesity: The Rising Incidence and Mortality Rates of Uterine Corpus Cancer.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2019Article
- Role of discrimination and resilience on birth weight: A systematic examination in a sample of Black, Latina, and White women.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
Objectives To explore associations between race, nativity, and low birth weight (LBW) among Latina and non-Latina women, with special attention to the Black Latina subgroup. Methods Using US natality data from 2011 to 2013, we designed a population-based study to compare LBW (< 2500 g) rates across six groups of women with self-identified race (N = 7,865,264)-White and Black Latina, foreign-born and US-born; non-Latina Black; and non-Latina White-creating 4 models for analysis: unadjusted (Model 1) and adjusted for sociodemographic factors (Model 2), sociodemographic plus medical risk factors (Model 3), and Model 3 factors plus smoking (Model 4). Results Infant LBW rate for Black Latinas (7.9%) was higher than White Latinas (5.6%) and varied by nativity: US-born (8.9%) versus foreign-born (6.1%). Among all study groups, US-born Black Latinas' LBW rate (8.9%) was second only to non-Latina Blacks (11.0%). In unadjusted Model 1, US-born Black Latinas had 81% (odds ratio [OR]: 1.81; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.74-1.88) and foreign-born Black Latinas had 22% (OR: 1.22; 95% CI 1.15-1.29) higher odds of LBW than non-Latina White women (reference group). However, in Model 2, ORs for foreign-born Black Latinas were nearly identical to non-Latina Whites (OR: 1.03; 95% CI 0.97-1.1), while US-born Black Latinas' odds were still 47% higher (OR: 1.47; 95% CI 1.42-1.53). Model 3 ORs for each group were similar to Model 2. Conclusions for Practice A significant subgroup of Latina women self-identify as Black, and their LBW rates are higher than White Latinas. Black Latinas born in the United States fare worse than their foreign-born counterparts, implicating negative effects of Black race specific to the US context.
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