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Methodologic implications of allocating multiple-race data to single-race categoriesJennifer D Parker
Division of Health Utilization and Analysis, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Health Serv Res 37:203-15. 2002..Additional research is needed to determine the effects of these methods for other health service measures...- Linkage of the US National Health Interview Survey to air monitoring data: an evaluation of different strategiesJennifer D Parker
National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Environ Res 106:384-92. 2008..With the current monitoring data system, the study sample is substantially reduced when linkage to multiple pollutants is performed... - The International Collaboration on Air Pollution and Pregnancy Outcomes: initial resultsJennifer D Parker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:1023-8. 2011..The findings of prior studies of air pollution effects on adverse birth outcomes are difficult to synthesize because of differences in study design... - Air pollution and birth weight among term infants in CaliforniaJennifer D Parker
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Pediatrics 115:121-8. 2005..To examine associations between birth weight and air pollution among full-term infants in California... - Multiple imputation for national public-use datasets and its possible application for gestational age in United States Natality filesJennifer D Parker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 21:97-105. 2007.... - Influences of study design and location on the relationship between particulate matter air pollution and birthweightJennifer D Parker
National Center for Health Statistics, Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 22:214-27. 2008..The association between coarse particle exposure and birthweight appeared robust, if small; fine particles had no overall association with birthweight... - Preterm birth after the Utah Valley Steel Mill closure: a natural experimentJennifer D Parker
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Epidemiology 19:820-3. 2008..So-called natural experiments ease concerns over confounding and exposure misclassification, concerns that are common in studies of air pollution and pregnancy outcome... - Air pollution and childhood respiratory allergies in the United StatesJennifer D Parker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:140-7. 2009..Childhood respiratory allergies, which contribute to missed school days and other activity limitations, have increased in recent years, possibly due to environmental factors... - Invited commentary: Crossing curves--it's time to focus on gestational age-specific mortalityJennifer D Parker
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:798-801. 2009.... - The use of covariates to identify records with implausible gestational ages using the birthweight distributionJennifer D Parker
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782 2003, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 24:424-32. 2010.... - Bridging between two standards for collecting information on race and ethnicity: an application to Census 2000 and vital ratesJennifer D Parker
Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Rd, Rm 6415, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Public Health Rep 119:192-205. 2004.... - Variation in hospital discharges for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions among childrenJ D Parker
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 106:942-8. 2000..However, few studies of ACSC have focused on children. We estimated national hospitalization rates for ACSC among children and examined the behavior of the index between subgroups of children... - A comparison of recent trends in infant mortality among twins and singletonsJ D Parker
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 15:12-8. 2001..Factors and circumstances that contributed to the infant mortality decline in the United States have benefited twins to a greater extent than singletons... - Implications of cleaning gestational age dataJennifer D Parker
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 16:181-7. 2002..Systematic comparisons between results of different studies will need to consider the data modifications used, the populations affected, and the outcomes assessed when drawing conclusions... - The correspondence between interracial births and multiple-race reportingJennifer D Parker
Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1976-81. 2002..We examined the hypothesis that multiple-race reporting is associated with interracial births by comparing parental race reported on birth certificates with reported race in a national health survey... - Mind the gap: bridge methods to allocate multiple-race mothers in trend analyses of birth certificate dataKatherine E Heck
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
Matern Child Health J 7:65-70. 2003..To examine the effects of proposed methods of redistributing multiple-race mothers to single-race categories when computing trend data from birth certificates... - Multiple-race mortality data for California, 2000-2001Katherine E Heck
Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, National Center for Health Statistics, Maternal and Child Health Branch, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA, USA
Public Health Rep 119:187-91. 2004..To examine mortality rates and quality of race reporting for multiple-race individuals in California using the new multiple-race data available on the death certificate... - Multiple-race mothers on the California birth certificate, 2000K E Heck
National Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento, California, USA
Ethn Dis 11:626-32. 2001..This analysis reports selected demographic characteristics and birth outcomes for multiple-race mothers, using California birth certificate data for 2000... - Relationships between air pollution and preterm birth in CaliforniaMary Huynh
National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:454-61. 2006..95 to 1.00). Maternal exposure to PM(2.5), but not CO, is associated with preterm birth. This analysis did not show differences by timing of exposure, although more detailed examination may be needed... - Multiple race reporting for children in a national health surveyJ D Parker
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Ethn Dis 10:262-74. 2000..Sociodemographic variables were not associated with child's reported race among interracial families. These findings indicate that generalizations about multiple race children for research or policy purposes will be problematic... - Contribution of excess weight gain during pregnancy and macrosomia to the cesarean delivery rate, 1990-2000Julia C Rhodes
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
Pediatrics 111:1181-5. 2003..To explore whether this increase is associated with excess weight gain during pregnancy, resulting in macrosomic infants who require cesarean delivery, we examined trends in excess weight gain, macrosomia, and cesarean delivery... - The association between childhood asthma prevalence and monitored air pollutants in metropolitan areas, United States, 2001-2004Lara J Akinbami
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Environ Res 110:294-301. 2010..We sought to assess the association between chronic outdoor air pollution exposure, as measured by 12-month averages by county, and asthma among children in metropolitan areas across the nation... - Trends in US sex ratio by plurality, gestational age and race/ethnicityAmy M Branum
Infant, Child and Women s Health Statistics Branch, Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782 2003, USA
Hum Reprod 24:2936-44. 2009..Concurrent changes in the childbearing population may have influenced the sex ratio, including increases in multiple births, improvements in perinatal survival and increased Hispanic births... - Excessive maternal weight gain patterns in adolescentsLajeana D Howie
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 103:1653-7. 2003..Adolescents are at high risk of gaining an excessive amount of weight during pregnancy and should be monitored during pregnancy by dietetics professionals... - Contextual effect of income inequality on birth outcomesMary Huynh
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Rm 6112, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:888-95. 2005..In this analysis, we examined the relationship between income inequality and preterm birth (PTB) and post-neonatal mortality (PNM) to explore two potential mechanisms-the proposed psychosocial stress and neo-material pathways... - From single-race reporting to multiple-race reporting: using imputation methods to bridge the transitionNathaniel Schenker
Office of Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Stat Med 22:1571-87. 2003..Thus, caution should be exercised if an imputation model fitted to data from one time period is to be applied to data from another time period. Published in 2003 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd... - The role of reported primary race on health measures for multiple race respondents in the National Health Interview SurveyJennifer D Parker
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Rd, Rm 6107, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Public Health Rep 121:160-8. 2006..This report compares selected health and demographic measures by the response to the primary race question and compares estimates for specific primary race groups to corresponding estimates for single race groups... - The association between community context and mortality among Mexican-American infantsA M Jenny
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
Ethn Dis 11:722-31. 2001..Exposure to the Mexican culture may reinforce healthy behaviors that Mexican-American women may lose through acculturation... - Air pollution exposure and self-reported cardiovascular diseaseDerek Johnson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Environ Res 109:582-9. 2009..This study examined the relationship between PM2.5 and the prevalence of self-reported hypertension and heart disease using data from a large nation-wide survey... - Parental employment, family structure, and child's health insuranceA Rolett
Division of Health Utilization and Analysis, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Ambul Pediatr 1:306-13. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: Employer-sponsored health insurance coverage for children is extremely variable, depending on employment characteristics and marital status of the parents... - Disparities in exposure to air pollution during pregnancyTracey J Woodruff
National Center for Environmental Economics, U S Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, California 94105, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:942-6. 2003..96; 95% CI, 0.86-1.07) in a county with high air pollution. Additional risk of residing in areas with poor air quality may exacerbate health problems of infants and children already at increased risk for poor health... - Maternal smoking as a confounder in studies of air pollution and infant mortalityLyndsey A Darrow
Epidemiology 17:592-3. 2006 - Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution and selected causes of postneonatal infant mortality in CaliforniaTracey J Woodruff
Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, U S Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, California 94105, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:786-90. 2006..82 (95% CI, 0.55-1.23) for SIDS, and 0.83 (95% CI, 0.50-1.39) for external causes. The California findings add further evidence of a PM air pollution effect on respiratory-related postneonatal infant mortality... - Comparing exposure metrics in the relationship between PM2.5 and birth weight in CaliforniaRupa Basu
US Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 14:391-6. 2004..36, 0.60) among non-Hispanic white mothers; similar results were observed among the Hispanic sample of mothers. Consequently, inferences from studies using different definitions of air pollution exposure may not be comparable... - Air pollution and postneonatal infant mortality in the United States, 1999-2002Tracey J Woodruff
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:110-5. 2008..Our goal was to evaluate the relationship between cause-specific postneonatal infant mortality and chronic early-life exposure to particulate matter and gaseous air pollutants across the United States...