Not Signed In - African-Americans At Increased Risk For Earlier Preterm Births, Multiple Pre-Term Births Also More Likely
Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:00 AM EST
... Using data from over 700,000 births in Missouri from 1989 to 1997, researchers found that African American mothers were 3 times more likely than Caucasian mothers to deliver prematurely at 20-34 weeks and almost 4 times more likely to deliver extremely prematurely at 20-28 weeks. (Full term births occur at 37-41 weeks gestation. [click link for full article] ...
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