Claudia Holzman

TL;DR: The deprivation index was associated with the unadjusted prevalence of preterm birth and low birth weight for white non-Hispanic and to a lesser extent for black non- Hispanic women across the eight sites, suggesting the utility of using a deprivation index for research into neighborhood effects on adverse birth outcomes.

TL;DR: In this study, deprivation at the neighborhood level was significantly associated with increased risk of preterm birth among both non-Hispanic White women andnon-Hispanic Black women.

TL;DR: Late-preterm birth is associated with behavioral problems and lower IQ at the age of 6, independent of maternal IQ, residential setting, and sociodemographics.

TL;DR: This is the first large, community-based study to examine risk of very preterm birth in relation to mercury levels among women with low to moderate exposure and found fish consumption and consumption of canned fish, bought fish, and sport-caught fish were positively associated with mercury levels in hair.

TL;DR: Developing indices representing specific socioeconomic domains that can be reproduced in other areas to estimate elements of the neighborhood socioeconomic environment on health outcomes suggests that specific neighborhood-level socioeconomic features may be especially influential to health outcomes.