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“They share the same socioeconomic disadvantages as other minority groups, but Hispanic women have fewer low-birth-weight babies and lower rates of premature births than black and white mothers, South Florida researchers have found.
An 11-year study by Dr. Victor Hugo Gonzalez-Quintero and colleagues at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine reviewed more than 80,000 deliveries at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and found Hispanic mothers had the lowest rate of low-birth-weight infants, 9 percent, compared with 18 percent for non-Hispanic black mothers and 11 percent for non-Hispanic white mothers.”
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