James W Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1730243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lurie Children's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6396-2579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Third Generation Consequences of Small for Gestational Age Births
African-American Women’s Early-Life Exposure to Neighborhood Mortgage Discrimination and Preterm Birth Rates: A Population-Based Study
Urban African-American women's early-life residence in predominately non-Hispanic White, mortgage discriminated neighborhoods is associated with an increased risk of PTB, particularly its' early component, independent of adulthood risk status
Lifetime Upward Economic Mobility and US-Born Latina Women’s Preterm Birth Rates
Latina women's upward economic mobility from early-life residence in modestly impoverished urban neighborhoods is associated with a decreased risk of PTB. A similar trend is absent among their peers with an early-life residence in extremely impoverished areas
Women’s Economic Mobility and Small for Gestational Age Rates: The Effect of Paternal Early-Life Socioeconomic Position
Explaining the Link Between Paternal Socioeconomic Position and Small for Gestational Age Birth: The Effect of Maternal Unhealthy Behaviors
The Relation of Neighborhood Racial and Income Polarity to Preterm Birth Rates in Chicago
Teen Birth Across Generations Among Non-Latino Whites and African–American Women: The Effect of Race and Neighborhood Income
Infant Mortality Rates Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Latinx Women: The Effect of Black Race
The Excess Preterm Birth Rate Among US-Born (Compared to Foreign-Born) Black Women: The Role of Father’s Education
Non-Hispanic White Women’s Exposure to Decreased Neighborhood Income and Small for Gestational Age Births: A Population-Based Study
Excess Early (< 34 weeks) Preterm Rates Among Non-acknowledged and Acknowledged Low Socioeconomic Position Fathers: The Role of Women’s Selected Pregnancy-Related Risk Factors
Early and Late Preterm Birth Rates Among US-Born Urban Women: The Effect of Men’s Lifelong Class Status
Neighborhood Gun Violence and Birth Outcomes in Chicago
Father’s Lifetime Socioeconomic Status, Small for Gestational Age Infants, and Infant Mortality: A Population-Based Study
Low paternal socioeconomic status is a previously unrecognized determinant of SGA birth regardless of mother's demographic status
Mortgage discrimination and preterm birth among African American women: An exploratory study
Low Birth Weight Among Infants Born to Black Latina Women in the United States
Objectives To explore associations between race, nativity, and low birth weight (LBW) among Latina and non-Latina women, with special attention to the Black Latina subgroup. Methods Using US natality data from 2011 to 2013, we designed a population-based study to compare LBW (< 2500 g) rates across six groups of women with self-identified race (N = 7,865,264)-White and Black Latina, foreign-born and US-born; non-Latina Black; and non-Latina White…
Affluent-Born White Mother’s Descending Neighborhood Income and Infant Mortality: A Population-Based Study
African-American women’s Upward Economic Mobility and Small for Gestational Age Births: A Population-Based Study
The age-related patterns of preterm birth among urban African-American and non-Latina White mothers: The effect of paternal involvement
Early Preterm Birth Across Generations Among Whites and African-Americans: A Population-Based Study
Paternal Lifelong Socioeconomic Position and Low Birth Weight Rates: Relevance to the African-American Women’s Birth Outcome Disadvantage
The Relation of Maternal Birth Weight to African-American and Non-Latina White Twin Pregnancy Outcomes: A Population-Based Study
The Relation of Neighborhood Income to the Age-Related Patterns of Preterm Birth Among White and African-American Women: The Effect of Cigarette Smoking
Abdominal Wall Defects Among Mexican American Infants: The Effect of Maternal Nativity
US-born Mexican American women have nearly a two-fold greater rate of delivering an infant with an abdominal wall defect than their Mexico-born counterparts. This phenomenon is only partially explained by traditional risk factors and highlights a detrimental impact of lifelong residence in the United States, or something closely related to it, on the pregnancy outcome of Mexican American women
Downward Economic Mobility and Preterm Birth: An Exploratory Study of Chicago-Born Upper Class White Mothers
Very Low Birthweight in African American Infants: The Role of Maternal Exposure to Interpersonal Racial Discrimination
The lifelong accumulated experiences of racial discrimination by African American women constitute an independent risk factor for preterm delivery
The effects of racial density and income incongruity on pregnancy outcomes
The differential effect of traditional risk factors on infant birthweight among blacks and whites in Chicago
We analyzed 103,072 White and Black births in Chicago from the 1982 and 1983 Illinois vital records, using 1980 median family income of mother's census tract as an ecologic variable. Thirty-one percent of Blacks and 4 percent of Whites resided in census tracts with median family incomes less than or equal to $10,000/year. Only 2 percent of Black mothers, compared to 16 percent of White mothers, lived in areas where the median family income was gr…
Race and birthweight in biracial infants
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of the study was to determine the role of infant race as a determinant of the Black-White disparity in low birthweight (
Disparities in Infant Mortality: What’s Genetics Got to Do With It
Since 1950, dramatic advances in human genetics have occurred, racial disparities in infant mortality have widened, and the United States’ international ranking in infant mortality has deteriorated. The quest for a “preterm birth gene” to explain racial differences is now under way. Scores of papers linking polymorphisms to preterm birth have appeared in the past few years. Is this strategy likely to reduce racial disparities? We reviewed broad e…
Very-low-birthweight infants and income incongruity among African American and white parents in Chicago
OBJECTIVES: Illinois vital records for 1982/1983 and US census income data for 1980 were analyzed to ascertain the relationship of income incongruity, race, and very low birthweight. METHODS: Positive income incongruity was considered present when study infants resided in wealthier neighborhoods than non-Latino Whites at the same level of parental education attainment and marital status. RESULTS: The odds ratios of very low birthweight for Africa…
Mortgage discrimination and preterm birth among African American women: An exploratory study
Low Birth Weight Among Infants Born to Black Latina Women in the United States
Objectives To explore associations between race, nativity, and low birth weight (LBW) among Latina and non-Latina women, with special attention to the Black Latina subgroup. Methods Using US natality data from 2011 to 2013, we designed a population-based study to compare LBW (< 2500 g) rates across six groups of women with self-identified race (N = 7,865,264)-White and Black Latina, foreign-born and US-born; non-Latina Black; and non-Latina White…
African American Women's Lifetime Upward Economic Mobility and Preterm Birth: The Effect of Fetal Programming
Objectives. We investigated whether African American mothers’ upward economic mobility across the life course and having been of low birth weight are associated with the preterm birth of their children. Methods. We performed stratified and multilevel logistic regression analyses on an Illinois transgenerational data set of African American infants (born 1989–1991) and their mothers (n = 11 265; born 1956–1976) with appended US Census income infor…
Layers of Inequality: Power, Policy, and Health
Racial differences in post‐neonatal mortality in Chicago: What risk factors explain the black infant's disadvantage
We conclude that a substantial proportion of the black to white difference in post-neonatal mortality is associated with specific environmental conditions
The differential effect of traditional risk factors on infant birthweight among blacks and whites in Chicago
We analyzed 103,072 White and Black births in Chicago from the 1982 and 1983 Illinois vital records, using 1980 median family income of mother's census tract as an ecologic variable. Thirty-one percent of Blacks and 4 percent of Whites resided in census tracts with median family incomes less than or equal to $10,000/year. Only 2 percent of Black mothers, compared to 16 percent of White mothers, lived in areas where the median family income was gr…
Race and birthweight in biracial infants
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of the study was to determine the role of infant race as a determinant of the Black-White disparity in low birthweight (
Prevalence of Low Birth Weight among Hispanic Infants with United States-born and Foreign-born Mothers: The Effect of Urban Poverty
Although Hispanics are a poorly educated and medically underserved minority, the incidence of low birth weight (less than 2,500 g) Hispanic infants is similar to that of non-Hispanic whites. The authors used 1982-1983 Illinois vital records and 1980 US census income data to determine the contribution of maternal nativity and place of residence to this epidemiologic paradox. The proportion of low birth weight Hispanic (n = 22,892) infants ranged f…
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Differing Birth Weight among Infants of U.S.-Born Blacks, African-Born Blacks, and U.S.-Born Whites
BACKGROUND: In the United States, the birth weights of infants of black women are lower than those of infants of white women. The extent to which the lower birth weights among blacks are related to social or genetic factors is unclear. METHODS: We used vital records for 1980 through 1995 from Illinois to determine the distribution of birth weights among infants born to three groups of women -- U.S.-born blacks, African-born blacks, and U.S.-born …
Racial differences in post‐neonatal mortality in Chicago: What risk factors explain the black infant's disadvantage
We conclude that a substantial proportion of the black to white difference in post-neonatal mortality is associated with specific environmental conditions
Very-low-birthweight infants and income incongruity among African American and white parents in Chicago
OBJECTIVES: Illinois vital records for 1982/1983 and US census income data for 1980 were analyzed to ascertain the relationship of income incongruity, race, and very low birthweight. METHODS: Positive income incongruity was considered present when study infants resided in wealthier neighborhoods than non-Latino Whites at the same level of parental education attainment and marital status. RESULTS: The odds ratios of very low birthweight for Africa…
Low-Income African-American Mothers’ Perception of Exposure to Racial Discrimination and Infant Birth Weight
We performed a hospital-based case-control study of African-American mothers to explore the relation between a mother's perception of exposure to racial discrimination during pregnancy and very low birth weight. We administered a structured questionnaire to low-income mothers of very low birth weight ( 2500 gm; N = 60) infants. The unadjusted and adjusted odds ratio of very low birth weight for maternal exposure to racial discrimination were 1.9 …
Differing Postneonatal Mortality Rates of African-American and White Infants in Chicago: An Ecologic Study
Low Birth Weight Across Generations
Very Low Birthweight in African American Infants: The Role of Maternal Exposure to Interpersonal Racial Discrimination
The lifelong accumulated experiences of racial discrimination by African American women constitute an independent risk factor for preterm delivery
The effects of racial density and income incongruity on pregnancy outcomes
Relation of Maternal Low Birth Weight to Infant Growth Retardation and Prematurity
Disparities in Infant Mortality: What’s Genetics Got to Do With It
Since 1950, dramatic advances in human genetics have occurred, racial disparities in infant mortality have widened, and the United States’ international ranking in infant mortality has deteriorated. The quest for a “preterm birth gene” to explain racial differences is now under way. Scores of papers linking polymorphisms to preterm birth have appeared in the past few years. Is this strategy likely to reduce racial disparities? We reviewed broad e…
The Illinois Transgenerational Birth File: Life-Course Analysis of Birth Outcomes Using Vital Records and Census Data Over Decades
Women’s Lifelong Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Low Birth Weight: A Population-Based Study
Changing Trends in Low Birth Weight Rates Among Non-Hispanic Black Infants in the United States, 1991–2004
Low Birth Weight Across Generations: The Effect of Economic Environment
Exploring Weathering: The Relation of Age to Low Birth Weight Among First Generation and Established United States-Born Mexican–American Women
African American Women's Lifetime Upward Economic Mobility and Preterm Birth: The Effect of Fetal Programming
Objectives. We investigated whether African American mothers’ upward economic mobility across the life course and having been of low birth weight are associated with the preterm birth of their children. Methods. We performed stratified and multilevel logistic regression analyses on an Illinois transgenerational data set of African American infants (born 1989–1991) and their mothers (n = 11 265; born 1956–1976) with appended US Census income infor…
Suburban Migration and the Birth Outcome of Chicago-Born White and African–American Women: The Merit of the Healthy Migrant Theory
Differing First Year Mortality Rates of Term Births to White, African-American, and Mexican-American US-Born and Foreign-Born Mothers
Social Organization and Referential Coherence in Classroom Discussions
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 10-24
The maternal Age Related Patterns of Infant Low Birth Weight Rates Among Non-Latino Whites and African-Americans: The Effect of Maternal Birth Weight and Neighborhood Income
Small-for-Gestational Age and Preterm Birth Across Generations: A Population-Based Study of Illinois Births
Medicine (48 works) · Demography (42 works) · Demography (37 works) · Population (34 works) · Pregnancy (33 works) · Birth, Development, and Health (27 works) · Environmental health (26 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (25 works) · Birth weight (22 works) · Public health (20 works)