RT Journal
A1 Brosco JP, Sanders LM, Guez G, Lantos JD
T1 HIstorical trends in low birth weight
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2010
FD January 1
VO 164
IS 1
SP 99
OP 100
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.255
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.255
AB 
Scholars have noted that the premature birth rate has risen steadily in the United States during the past 25 years and have used this fact to try to understand the cause of premature birth.1 As part of an on-going epidemiologic review of the history of the etiology of intellectual disability, we examined trends in low-birth-weight births in the United States during the last 5 decades.