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Comparative Study
. 1990 Jan;80(1):70-2.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.80.1.70.

Foreign-born and US-born black women: differences in health behaviors and birth outcomes

H Cabral  1 , L E Fried, S Levenson, H Amaro, B Zuckerman
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Comparative Study

Foreign-born and US-born black women: differences in health behaviors and birth outcomes

H Cabral et al. Am J Public Health. 1990 Jan.

Abstract

We studied health behaviors and birth outcome among 201 foreign-born and 616 US-born Black women receiving prenatal care at Boston City Hospital. Foreign-born women had better pre-pregnancy nutritional status and prenatal health behaviors, and their infants had greater intrauterine growth. Black women are not a homogeneous group; culture and ethnicity, in addition to other variables, must be considered in the study of their birth outcomes.

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