Maternal age and infant mortality: a test of the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis.
Maternal age and infant mortality: a test of the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis.
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DOI：
10.1093/aje/kwn308
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Stratton, Howard
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作者：
Gage, Timothy B.;Fang, Fu;O'Neill, Erin;Stratton, Howard
It has been argued (e.g., the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis) that (low) birth weight is a correlate of adverse birth outcomes but is not on the “causal” pathway to infant mortality. However, the US national policy for reducing infant mortality is to reduce low birth weight. If these theoretical views are correct, lowering the rate of low birth weight may have little effect on infant mortality. In this paper, the authors use the “covariate density defined mixture of logistic regressions” method to formally test the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis that a covariate which influences birth weight, in this case maternal age, can influence infant mortality directly but not indirectly through birth weight. The authors analyze data from 8 populations in New York State (1985–1988). The results indicate that among the populations examined, 1) maternal age significantly influences the birth weight distribution and 2) maternal age also affects infant mortality directly, but 3) the influence of maternal age on the birth weight distribution has little or no effect on infant mortality, because the birth-weight-specific mortality curve shifts accordingly to compensate for changes in the birth weight distribution. These results tend to support the Wilcox-Russell hypothesis for maternal age.
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影响因子：
1.7
作者：
Gage, TB
通讯作者：
Gage, TB
DOI：
10.1111/j.1469-1809.1951.tb02469.x
发表时间：
1951-01-01
期刊：
ANNALS OF EUGENICS
影响因子：
--
作者：
KARN, MN;PENROSE, LS
通讯作者：
PENROSE, LS
影响因子：
158.5
作者：
MCCORMICK, MC
通讯作者：
MCCORMICK, MC
影响因子：
5
作者：
Basso, Olga;Wilcox, Allen J.;Weinberg, Clarice R.
通讯作者：
Weinberg, Clarice R.
影响因子：
7.7
作者：
Wilcox, AJ
通讯作者：
Wilcox, AJ