• Medicine
• Published in
  International journal of…
  2008
• DOI:10.1093/ije/dyn112

Socioeconomic position and the risk of preterm birth--a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort.

@article{Morgen2008SocioeconomicPA,
  title={Socioeconomic position and the risk of preterm birth--a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort.},
  author={Camilla Schmidt Morgen and Christina Bj{\o}rk and Per Kragh Andersen and Laust Hvas Mortensen and Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen},
  journal={International journal of epidemiology},
  year={2008},
  volume={37 5},
  pages={
          1109-20
        }
}

• Camilla Schmidt Morgen, Christina Bjørk, +2 authors Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen

BACKGROUND Low socioeconomic position is generally associated with increased risk of preterm birth, but it remains unclear whether the inequality depends on the socioeconomic measure used, if the associations differ according to the degree of prematurity, and how individual level risk factors mediate the association. METHODS The hazard ratios (HR) of preterm birth associated with five different measures of socioeconomic position and three degrees of preterm birth were analysed in a dataset of… CONTINUE READING

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