Bibliography

CORE METHODS

Wilcox AJ, Russell, IT. Birthweight and perinatal mortality: I. On the frequency distribution of birthweight. Int J Epidemiol 12:314-18, 1983a. Abstract

Wilcox AJ, Russell, IT. Birthweight and perinatal mortality: II. On weight-specific mortality. Int J Epidemiol 12:319-25, 1983b. Abstract

Wilcox AJ, Russell IT. Birthweight and perinatal mortality: III. Toward a new method of analysis. Int J Epidemiol 15:188-96, 1986. Abstract

OTHER THEORETICAL ASPECTS

Altman DG and Hytten FE. Intrauterine growth retardation: Let's be clear about it. Brit J Obstet Gynecol 1989; 96:1127-32

Wilcox AJ. Birthweight, gestation and the fetal growth curve. Am J Obstet Gynecol 39:863-67, 1981. Abstract

Wilcox AJ. Intrauterine growth retardation: beyond birthweight criteria. Early Hum Dev 8:189-93, 1983c. Abstract

Wilcox AJ, Russell, IT. Perinatal mortality: standardizing for birthweight is biased. Am J Epidemiol 118:857-64, 1983d. Abstract

Weinberg CR, Wilcox AJ. Reproductive epidemiology. In: Rothman KJ, Greenland S (eds.): Modern Epidemiology (2nd Edition), Philadelphia, Little, Brown & Co., 1998, 585-608.

EXTENSIONS

English PB, Eskenazi B. Reinterpreting the effects of maternal smoking on infant birthweight and perinatal mortality: a multivariate approach to birthweight standardization. Int J Epidemiol. 6:1097-105, 1992.

Umbach DM, Wilcox AJ. A technique for measuring epidemiologically useful features of birthweight distributions. Statist Med 15: 1333-48; 1996. Abstract

Hertz-Picciotto I, Din-Dzietham R. Comparisons of infant mortality using a percentile- based method of standardization for birthweight or gestational age. Epidemiol 1:61-7, 1998.

Liu J-M, Li Z, Lin Q, Zhao P, Zhao F-L, Hong S-X, Li S. Cerebral palsy and multiple births in China. Internat J Epidemiol 29:292-99, 2000.

APPLICATIONS

Skjærven R, Wilcox AJ, Russell D. Birthweight and perinatal mortality of second births conditional on weight of the first. Int J Epidemiol 17:830-38, 1988. Abstract

Bjerkedal T, Czeizel A, Hosmer DW Jr. Birthweight of single live births and weight specific early neonatal mortality in Hungary and Norway. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 1:29-40, 1989.

Wilcox AJ, Russell, IT. Why small black infants have lower mortality than small white infants: the case for population-specific standards for birth weight. J Pediatr 116:7-10, 1990.

Wilcox AJ, Skjærven R. Birthweight and perinatal mortality: the effect of gestational age. Am J Public Health 82:378-82, 1992. Abstract

Buekens P, Wilcox AJ. Why do small twins have a lower mortality rate than small singletons? Am J Obstet Gynecol 168:937-41, 1993. Abstract

Wilcox AJ. Birthweight and perinatal mortality: the effect of maternal smoking. Am J Epidemiol 137:1098-1104, 1993. Abstract

Wilcox AJ, Skjærven R, Buekens P, Kiely J. Birthweight and perinatal mortality: A comparison of the United States and Norway. JAMA 273:709-11; 1995. Abstract

Øyen N, Skjærven R, Little RE, Wilcox AJ. Fetal growth retardation in Sudden Infant Death Symdrome (SIDS) babies and their siblings. Am J Epidemiol 142:84-90; 1995. Abstract

Buekens P, Wilcox AJ, Kiely J, Masuy-Stroobant G. Birthweight, preterm births and neonatal mortality in Belgium and the United States. Pediatr Perinat Epidemiol 9:273-80; 1995. Abstract

Skjærven R, Wilcox AJ, Øyen N, Magnus P. Mothers' birthweight and the survival of their offspring. Brit Med J 314: 1376-80; 1997. Abstract

Buekens P, Notzon F, Kotelchuck M, Wilcox AJ. Why do Mexican-Americans have few low birthweight infants? Amer J Epidemiol 152:347-51; 2000. Abstract

Why study birth weight?

A short history of low birth weight

The low birth weight paradox

Frequency distribution of birth weight

Birth weight specific mortality

The Wilcox-Russell hypothesis

The analysis of infant mortality

Beyond low birth weight

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