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- Title
Maternal Age and Birth Outcomes: Data from New Jersey.
- Authors
Reichman, Nancy E.; Pagnini, Deanna L.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the effects of maternal age on low birth weight, infant mortality and newborn hospitalization costs using a unique linked data set of births in 1989 and 1990 among New Jersey women. The effects of maternal age on low birth weight, newborns' hospital costs and infant mortality were estimated based on individual 1989 and 1990 vital statistics records from New Jersey that were linked with uniform billing hospital discharge records. Results of multivariate analyses show a U-shaped relationship between maternal age and low birth weight among whites, with the youngest (younger than 15) and oldest (aged 40 and older) mothers being at higher risk than 25-29-year-olds; older teenagers were not at any significantly increased risk Among blacks, however, 15-19-year-olds faced significantly lower risks of delivering low-birth-weight babies than did black women aged 25-29. Both black and white mothers in their 30s were significantly more likely to deliver a low-birth-weight baby than women aged 25-29 of the same race.
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 6, p268
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.2307/2953415