In-home prenatal nutrition intervention increased dietary iron intakes and reduced low birthweight in low-income African-American women.
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Low birthweight in a public prenatal care program: behavioral and psychosocial risk factors and psychosocial intervention.
A retrospective, observational study of 3073 low income African American, Latina, and White women receiving comprehensive prenatal care at 26 provider sites was completed. The purpose of the study was to test three hypotheses. First, after adjustment for biomedical complications, the presence of maternal behavioral and psychosocial factors would be associated with an increased rate of low birth...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American Dietetic Association
دوره 102 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002