Characteristics of maternal employment during pregnancy: effects on low birthweight.

Mary D. Peoples‐Sheps, Earl Siegel, Chirayath Suchindran, Hideki Origasa, Anna Lovelace Ware, Amr Barakat

American Journal of Public Health · 1991 · 104 citations · 30 references

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Abstract

Non-Black married American women may face a risk of delivering low-birthweight babies at or near term only if they work 40 or more hours each week. However, the lack of risk associated with other characteristics of work may be a function of measurement error in the DOT data source or of low levels of exposure in the analysis population.

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