Maternal ethnicity used the maternal report or where missing was inferred from white ethnic status for the child.
Effect modification by maternal ethnicity was examined by comparison of the associations between the two main ethnic groups: white British and Pakistani-origin populations.
We sought to examine the association between narrowly defined subsets of maternal ethnicity and birth outcomes.
Conclusion: Large variations in labor induction were noted across maternal ethnicity and hospital type categories.
Maternal ethnicity was associated with cord blood yield; Caucasian mothers provided larger quantities than either African American or Asian mothers.
Logistic regression models were created where maternal ethnicity, age, household structure and income, education, area deprivation and type of child care predicted proxy quality indicators (see Table 4).
These results indicate that, as seen when the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort was 9 months of age, the type of non-parental care at age 2 years is strongly related to maternal ethnicity.
However, the extent to which maternal vs hospital characteristics contribute to this variation remains poorly understood because previous studies were limited in scope and did not assess the influence of factors such as maternal ethnicity subgroups or prepregnancy obesity.
Current nomograms for the assessment of fetal growth in African American women have been derived either from neonatal (rather than fetal) biometry data or have not been customized for maternal ethnicity, weight, height, and parity and fetal sex.
We evaluated the degree of agreement and accuracy of maternal ethnicity measured using the new standardized closed-ended geographically based ethnicity question and geographic reclassification of open-ended ethnicity questions from the Canadian census.
Logistic regression models were created where maternal ethnicity, age, household structure and income, education, child parity and area deprivation predicted the likelihood of children being cared for by centre, extended family, nanny or home-based care; and the likelihood of having four or more changes in care from birth to 2 years (see Table 3).
