A group of early career researchers conducted a retrospectiv…

A group of early career researchers conducted a retrospective study using birth certificate data from infants born in North Carolina between 2000 and 2010 to examine whether maternal sociodemographic characteristics (age in years, education in years, household income in USD) and prenatal factors (smoking during pregnancy [1=yes, 0=no], prenatal care adequacy [0=none, 1=late/inadequate, 2=early/adequate]) were associated with the likelihood of delivering a low birth weight (LBW; defined as