Factors that mediate racial/ethnic disparities in US fetal death rates

S.A. Lorch, C.D. Kroelinger, C. Ahlberg and W.D. Barfield

American Journal of Public Health, 2012, vol. 102, issue 10, 1902-1910

Abstract: Objectives. We sought to determine the importance of socioeconomic factors, maternal comorbid conditions, antepartum and intrapartum complications of pregnancy, and fetal factors in mediating racial disparities in fetal deaths. Methods. We undertook a mediation analysis on a retrospective cohort study of hospital-based deliveries with a gestational age between 23 and 44 weeks in California, Missouri, and Pennsylvania from 1993 to 2005 (n = 7 104 674). Results. Among non-Hispanic Black women and Hispanic women, the fetal death rate was higher than among non-Hispanic White women (5.9 and 3.6 per 1000 deliveries, respectively, vs 2.6 per 1000 deliveries; P

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300852

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