Women's Lifelong Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Low Birth Weight: a Population-based Study

Overview

Journal Matern Child Health J

Specialty Health Services

Date 2008 May 7

PMID 18459039

Citations 38

Authors

James W Collins Jr

Jennifer Wambach

Richard J David

Kristin M Rankin

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Abstract

Objective: To determine whether women's lifelong residential environment is associated with infant low birth weight.

Methods: We performed race-specific stratified and multivariate binomial regression analyses on an Illinois vital record dataset of non-Latino White and African-American infants (1989-1991) and their mothers (1956-1975) with appended United States census income information.

Results: Non-Latino White women (N = 267) with a lifelong residence in low-income neighborhoods had a low birth weight (<2,500 g) incidence of 10.1% vs. 5.1% for White women (N = 10,647) with a lifelong residence in high-income neighborhoods; RR = 2.0 (1.4-2.9). African-American women (N = 18,297) with a lifelong residence in low-income neighborhoods had a low birth weight incidence of 17% vs. 11.7% for African-American women (N = 546) with a lifelong residence in high-income areas; RR = 1.5 (1.2-1.8). The adjusted population attributable risk (PAR) percent of LBW for lifelong residence in low-income neighborhoods was 1.6% for non-Latino White and 23.6% for African-American women.

Conclusions: Non-Latino White and African-American women's lifelong residence in low-income neighborhoods is a risk factor for LBW; however, African-Americans experience a greater public health burden from this phenomenon.

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