Racial disparities in preterm birth rates and short inter-pregnancy interval: an overview
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Racial disparities in preterm birth rates and short inter-pregnancy interval: an overview.
OBJECTIVE We seek to expand on a biopsychosocial framework underlying the etiology of excess preterm birth experienced by African-American women by exploring short inter-pregnancy intervals as a partial explanatory factor. DESIGN We conducted a qualitative analyses of published studies that met specified criteria for assessing the association of inter-pregnancy interval and preterm birth. M...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0001-6349
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2011.01081.x