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Should Race Be Used as a Variable in Research on Preterm Birth?

AMA journal of ethics - 1 Mar 2018

Eichelberger Kacey Y, Alson Julianna G, Doll Kemi M

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Racial variations in preterm birth (PTB) outcomes are well described, but causal mechanisms linking race and PTB are not. In clinical research, race is typically treated as representing fixed biological traits. In reality, race is a social construct that approximates lived experiences of historical and ongoing systematic discrimination and, in the case of PTB, particular stressors of black womanhood and...

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PMID: 29542440
DOI: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.3.sect1-1803

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