Familial Aggregation of Low Birth Weight among Whites and Blacks in the United States
- 28 December 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 333 (26), 1744-1749
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199512283332606
Abstract
Studies have shown that the birth weight of infants is correlated with the birth weights of their siblings and their mothers. We investigated whether the birth weights of mothers and index children were jointly associated with the risk of low birth weight in the siblings of the index children.Keywords
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