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GERONIMUS, ARLINE T. KORENMAN, SANDERS D. Maternal Youth or Family Background? On the Health Disadvantages of Infants with Teenage Mothers American Journal of Epidemiology 137,2 (January 1993): 213-225 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 762 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The health disadvantages of infants with teenage mothers are well documented. Because poor and minority women are disproportionately represented among teen mothers, differences in infant health by maternal age may reflect family background pre-childbearing) characteristics rather than the effects of maternal age. To control for differences in family background, the authors compared birth outcomes and maternal behaviors that could affect fetal or infant health among sisters in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-1988). They compared sisters who had first births at different ages in order to study the relation between maternal age and low birth weight, prenatal care, smoking and alcohol use during pregnancy, breast feeding, and well-child visits. The authors found evidence that maternal family background accounts for many of the health-related disadvantages of the firstborn infants of teenage mothers. The findings suggest that disadvantaged black primiparous women in their twenties may be an important and possibly underemphasized target population for interventions designed to reduce excess black low birth weight and infant mortality rates. MILLER, JANE E. KORENMAN, SANDERS D. Poverty and Children's Nutritional Status in the United States American Journal of Epidemiology 140,3 (August 1994): 233-243 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 ID Number: 1586 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study describes deficits in nutritional status among poor children in the United States using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for children born between 1979 and 1988. The prevalence of low height-for-age (stunting) and low weight-for-height (wasting) is higher among children in persistently poor families. Differentials appear greater according to long-term rather than short-term income; hence, single-year income measures do not adequately capture the effects of persistent poverty on children's nutritional status. Differences in nutritional status between poor and nonpoor children remain large even when controls for other characteristics associated with poverty, such as low maternal educational attainment, single-parent family structure, young maternal age,low maternal academic ability, and minority racial identification, are included. The excess risks of stunting and wasting among poor children are not reduced appreciably when size of the infant at birth or mother's height and weight are controlled. STARFIELD, BARBARA SHAPIRO, SAM WEISS, JUDITH LIANG, KUNG-YEE Race, Family Income, and Low Birth Weight American Journal of Epidemiology 134,10 (November 1991): 1167-1174 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 2300 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The relations among race, family income, and low birth weight were examined using information obtained from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which conducted yearly interviews with a nationally representative sample of young women identified in the late 1970s. Data were available for these women and their offspring from 1979 through 1988. Maternal education, maternal age, age/parity risk, marital status, and smoking during pregnancy served as covariates in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. The risk of low birth weight among births to black women and white women who were poor was at similarly high levels regardless of whether poverty was determined prior to study entrance or during the study period. Longitudinal analyses showed an exceptionally large increase in risk of low birth weight among children born to women whose prior pregnancy ended in a low-birth-weight infant. These two findings emphasize the importance of factors antecedent to the pregnancy in the genesis of low birth weight. Search returned 3 items. Search Start: 17:29:40 Search Finish: 17:29:40
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