Perinatal outcomes among immigrant mothers over two periods in a region of central Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of immigrants has increased in Italy in the last twenty years (7.2% of the Italian population), as have infants of foreign-born parents, but scanty evidence on perinatal outcomes is available. The aim of this study was to investigate whether infants of foreign-born mothers living in Italy have different odds of adverse perinatal outcomes compared to those of native-born mothers, and if such measures changed over two periods.

Methods

The source of this area-based study was the regional hospital discharge database that records perinatal information on all births in the Lazio region. We analysed 296,739 singleton births born between 1996-1998 and 2006-2008. The exposure variable was the mother's region of birth. We considered five outcomes of perinatal hea

SUBMITTER: Cacciani L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3119162 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature