caa a22 4500 386396418 CHVBK 20180307112139.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000017922 doi S0021932000017922 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000017922 Miller Jane E. Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Determinants of intrauterine growth retardation: evidence against maternal depletion [Elektronische Daten] [Jane E. Miller] This analysis examines the relationship between length of preceding birth interval and risk of intrauterine growth retardation using data on Swedish infants from the 1973 World Health Organization study of perinatal mortality. Results of a multivariate logit analysis demonstrate that the lower than average mean birth weight of infants born after short birth intervals cannot be completely attributed to their shorter mean gestation length. Infants born after birth intervals of 12 months or less are 30% more likely to be small for gestational age (SGA) than infants born 18-59 months after the previous birth, even when the effects of maternal age and parity are controlled. The results obtained here do not support maternal depletion as an explanation for the association between short birth intervals and elevated risk of SGA, since there is no evidence of an attenuation of the risk of SGA with increasing length of interval in the under 18 month birth interval range. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-04), 235-243 0021-9320 21:2<235 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017922 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017922 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Miller Jane E. Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-04), 235-243 0021-9320 21:2<235 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge