Obstetrics

Black teen mothers have greater risk for low-birth-weight and premature babies

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 18th, 2003

African-American teens are twice as likely to deliver low-birth-weight babies and 1.5 times more likely to have premature babies than white adolescents, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The study, conducted by researchers in the School's Center for Human Nutrition (CHN), examined birth outcomes of 1,120 pregnant African-American teens age 17 and younger, living in Baltimore, Maryland, and compared them to national data on their white counterparts.

When compared to pregnant black women of all ages in Maryland, the younger group had almost twice the infant mortality rate (2.3% vs. 1.3%). The...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-09-18)

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