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American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 161(12):1181; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi144
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Re: "Preterm Delivery Rates in North Carolina: Are They Really Declining among Non-Hispanic African Americans?"

K. S. Joseph1 and Cande V. Ananth2

1 Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 6R8, Canada
2 Divisions of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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Vahratian et al. (1Go) conclude that the recently observed decline in preterm birth among non-Hispanic African Americans in North Carolina is an artifact related to temporal reductions in the misclassification of full-term births (as preterm births). We are concerned that the bimodal birth weight distribution problem identified by Vahratian . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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