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Lilo T. Strauss
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 36
Citations - 2148
Lilo T. Strauss is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Abortion & Population. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 36 publications receiving 2127 citations. Previous affiliations of Lilo T. Strauss include Emory University.
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Abortion surveillance--United States, 1999.
Laurie D. Elam-Evans,Lilo T. Strauss,Joy L. Herndon,Wilda Y Parker,Sara J. Whitehead,Cynthia J. Berg +5 more
TL;DR: In the United States, a total of 861,789 legal induced abortions were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 1999, representing a 2.5% decrease from the 884,273 reported by the same 48 reporting areas for 1998 as discussed by the authors.
Abortion surveillance--United States 2005.
TL;DR: Abortion surveillance in the United States continues to provide the data necessary for examining trends in numbers and characteristics of women who obtain legal induced abortions and to increase understanding of this pregnancy outcome.
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Overview of the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project--design, methods, results.
TL;DR: The most important predictor for infant survival was birth weight, with an exponential improvement in survival by increasing birth weight to its optimum level, and nearly twofold higher risk of infant mortality among blacks was related to a higher prevalence of low birth weights.
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Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for ectopic pregnancy.
Mona Saraiya,Cynthia J. Berg,Juliette S. Kendrick,Lilo T. Strauss,Hani K. Atrash,Young W. Ahn +5 more
TL;DR: In this inner-city population, cigarette smoking was an independent, dose-related risk factor for ectopic pregnancy among black women and the public health and medical care communities should inform the public of this additional risk associated with cigarette smoking and intensify intervention strategies to reduce cigarette smoking among women of reproductive age.
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Young maternal age and infant mortality: the role of low birth weight.
Andrew Friede,Wendy Baldwin,Philip H. Rhodes,James W. Buehler,Lilo T. Strauss,Jack C. Smith,Carol J. R. Hogue +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the prevention of neonatal mortality and, to a lesser extent, postneonatal mortality among babies born to teenagers depends on preventing low birth weight.