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An overview of racial disparities in preterm birth rates: caused by infection or inflammatory response?
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica - 1 Dec 2011
Menon Ramkumar, Dunlop Anne L, Kramer Michael R, Fortunato Stephen J, Hogue Carol J
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Infection has been hypothesized to be one of the factors associated with spontaneous preterm birth (PTB) and with the racial disparity in rates of PTB between African American and Caucasian women. However, recent findings refute the generalizability of the role of infection and inflammation. African Americans have an increased incidence of PTB in the setting of intraamniotic infection, periodontal disease, and...
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