The effect of maternal socio-economic status throughout the lifespan on infant birthweight
dc.contributor.author | Astone, Nan Marie | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Misra, Dawn P. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lynch, Courtney | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-01T18:33:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-01T18:33:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Astone, Nan Marie; Misra, Dawn; Lynch, Courtney (2007). "The effect of maternal socio-economic status throughout the lifespan on infant birthweight." Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 21(4): 310-318. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/71764> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0269-5022 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1365-3016 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/71764 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=17564587&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Astone NM, Misra D, Lynch C. The effect of maternal socio-economic status throughout the lifespan on infant birthweight. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2007; 21: 310–318. The objective of this study was to investigate whether maternal socio-economic status during childhood and at the time of pregnancy each have unique associations with infant birthweight when biological determinants of birthweight are controlled. The data are from a three-generation study which contains information on the mothers and grandmothers of 987 singleton infants, collected over a period of 25 years. We used simple and multivariable regression to assess the association between indicators of a woman's socio-economic status and her offspring's birthweight. Women who grew up in poor households had smaller babies than those who did not, and a unit increase in the income/needs ratio (analogous to the poverty index), in non-poor households only, was associated with a 185 g [95% CI 70, 200] increase in infant birthweight. Maternal age at the index infant's birth had a positive association with birthweight that diminished as women reached their mid-twenties. Among mothers with low education, high grandmaternal education was associated with a 181 g [95% CI 71, 292] increase in infant birthweight, while high grandmaternal education had no effect among infants whose mothers were relatively well-educated. This interaction between grandmaternal and maternal education is consistent with claims that cumulative stress is an important mechanism connecting maternal socio-economic status and infant health. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en_US |
dc.rights | ©2007 The Authors, Journal Compilation ©2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Maternal Childhood Socio-economic Status | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Maternal Socio-economic Status | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Maternal Education | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Grandmaternal Education | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Maternal Age | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Birthweight | en_US |
dc.title | The effect of maternal socio-economic status throughout the lifespan on infant birthweight | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Pediatrics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Health Behaviour and Health Education, The University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, and | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | The National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 17564587 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/71764/1/j.1365-3016.2007.00821.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2007.00821.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | en_US |
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