A prospective observational study design with a comparison group was used. BIH participants with a delivery recorded between July 1996 and September 1998 and who had entered the BIH Program prior to 32 weeks’ gestation, were included in the birthweight (BW) and PTB analyses. These outcomes for BIH participants (n=l,553) were compared to those of [...]

Descriptive statistics for the entire sample, split by gender, are shown in Table 1. T-tests revealed a significant difference on BMI between men and women, with women exhibiting greater BMI. There were no other significant differences found on any of the other descriptive variables measured on a continuous scale. The majority (86%) of the sample [...]

The toll of infant morbidity and mortality associated with low birthweight (LBW) and preterm birth (PTB) has been investigated in numerous studies over the last 40 years. Associated factors, such as demographics, pregnancy history, personal behaviors, and access to prenatal care, are addressed repeatedly in the literature. However, there is still a less-than-adequate understanding of [...]

Study Design
This is a cross-sectional study of risk behaviors and the prevalence of HBV and HCV infection among veterans with SMI. We recruited 399 consecutive patients admitted to the Durham VA inpatient psychiatric unit between March 1998 and June 2000. The study setting was a VA psychiatric ward with 26 inpatient beds and an average [...]

Subjects
This study used a sample constructed by a merging of two cohorts from studies examining risk factors for hypertension conducted from 1986 to 1991. Subjects were recruited from Miami-Dade County, FL, through community blood pressure screenings and advertisements in newspapers. All subjects were healthy native English speakers. If a subject was taking a prescribed blood [...]

Vulnerable subpopulations with high rates or risks of hepatitis-B virus (HBV) and hepatitis-C virus (HCV) infection may warrant focal points for public health efforts to reduce or eliminate the transmission of these diseases. Although four million persons in the United States—or 1.8% of the population—are thought to be infected with HCV, the estimated U.S. rates [...]

INTRODUCTION
Population-based surveys indicate that black adults in the United States experience disproportionately higher rates of hypertension than their white counterparts, with 38.0% of black men compared to 28.9% of white men, and 41.0% of black women compared to 24.7% of white women suffering from hypertension. Consequently, a variety of hypotheses have been proposed to account [...]