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Twinning and Birth Weight in the Israeli Jewish Versus Muslim Maternities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Ran D. Goldman ,
Ram Mazkereth  and
Isaac Blickstein
Ran D. Goldman*
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Services, Department of Pediatrics,The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, ON, Canada. [email protected]
Ram Mazkereth
Affiliation:
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center (affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Israel).
Isaac Blickstein
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel (affiliated with Hadassah-Hebrew University, Israel).
*
*Address for correspondence: Ran D. Goldman, MD, Division of Emergency Services, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada.

Abstract

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Ethnicity differences account for genetic, environmental, lifestyle, and reproductive variables, influencing the rate of twinning (Nylander, 1981). Frequently, ethnic differences correlate with variable perinatal care leading to differences in outcome. Free access to antenatal care, and to facilities for delivery and neonatal care is available for the entire population in Israel, and therefor differences attributed to levels of medical care are practically negligible. We previously evaluated the overall relationship between ethnicity and outcome in a popula-tion-based cohort of mothers of twins (Goldman et al., 2001). However, the overall comparison may have masked some differences that could be present. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether ethnicity is associated with differences in perinatal outcome in randomly selected, matched-controlled Israeli Jewish and Muslim mothers of twins.

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Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , 01 February 2002 , pp. 15 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002