Urban Poverty: Effects on Prenatal Nutrition

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 21 Nov 1969 English Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Journal:Science, volume 166, pages 1,026-1,026 (issn: 0036-8075, eissn: 1095-9203,

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Authors: R L, Naeye; M M, Diener; W S, Dellinger; W A, Blanc;

doi: 10.1126/science.166.3908.1026.a , 10.1126/science.166.3908.1026 , 10.1097/00006254-197006000-00003 , 10.1126/science.166.3908.1026-a

pmid: 5388379

Urban Poverty: Effects on Prenatal Nutrition

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Infants of poor (as measured by an index) mothers were 15 percent smaller than infants of nonpoor mothers. Infants from poor families had multiple anatomic evidences of prenatal undernutrition.

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Keywords

Urban Population, Infant, Newborn, Gestational Age, Organ Size, Infant Nutrition Disorders, Pregnancy, Birth Weight, Humans, Female, New York City, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Poverty

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