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The European Journal of Public Health 2004 14(4):381-383; doi:10.1093/eurpub/14.4.381
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Migrant health

Birthweight differences among infants of North African immigrants and Belgians in Belgium

Anjel Vahratian1,*, Pierre Buekens2, Thérèse Delvaux3, Michel Boutsen4, Yue Wang5 and Lawrence L. Kupper6

1 Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 2 was 1), now: School of Public Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 3 STD/HIV Research and Intervention Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 4 Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, 5 Collaborative Research Unit, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 6 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Background: Infants of North African immigrants are reported to have higher birthweights than their Belgian counterparts. It is unclear what mechanism contributes to this difference. Methods: Analyses were based on a hospital-based cohort of 1,162 women. Results: Infants of North African immigrants were less likely to be born preterm, compared to infants of Belgian women. After adjusting for sociodemographic and maternal factors, the estimated difference in mean birthweight was 74 g (p=0.05). When limited to term births, this difference was 28 g (p=0.42). Conclusion: The difference in mean birthweight between North African and Belgian infants was explained by differences in preterm birth and other risk factors.

Keywords: birthweight, immigrants, preterm birth, smoking

Received 11 December 2002. Accepted 27 August 2003.

* Correspondence: Anjel Vahratian, MPH, now located at the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 6100 Executive Blvd., Room 7B03, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA, tel. (301) 594 9151, fax (301) 402 2084, e-mail: vahratia{at}mail.nih.gov


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