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Low birthweight among US Hispanic/Latino subgroups: The effect of maternal foreign-born status and education

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  • Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores
  • Soobader, Mah-J.
  • Berkman, Lisa F.

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We investigated whether maternal foreign-born status confers a protective effect against low birthweight (LBW) across US Hispanic/Latino subgroups (i.e., Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central/South Americans) in the USA, and whether the association between maternal education and LBW varies by Hispanic/Latino subgroup and by foreign-born status. We conducted logistic regression analyses of the 2002 US Natality Detail Data (n=634,797). Overall, foreign-born Latino women are less likely to have LBW infants than US-born Latino women. The protective effect of foreign-born status is stronger among Latino women with less than high school education. The maternal education gradient is significantly flatter among foreign-born Latino women than among their US-born counterparts (p

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  • Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores & Soobader, Mah-J. & Berkman, Lisa F., 2007. "Low birthweight among US Hispanic/Latino subgroups: The effect of maternal foreign-born status and education," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 65(12), pages 2503-2516, December.
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