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Percent of Live Births by Medical Risk Factors, Race and Ancestry of Mother
Michigan Residents, 2006

Risk Factors Race Ancestry
All Races White Black American
Indian
Asian & Pacific
Islander
All Other
Races
Arab Hispanic
Hypertension,
pregnancy-associated
4.1 4.1 4.4 5.0 2.6 2.3 1.6 2.9
Diabetes 3.8 3.8 3.3 8.0 7.8 5.7 4.0 4.7
Lung Disease 3.0 2.7 4.4 2.3 2.1 - 2.1 2.0
Anemia (Hct. 30/Hgb. 10) 2.2 1.9 3.6 1.9 2.1 2.3 3.5 2.6
Hydramnios/Oligohydramnios 1.7 1.6 1.9 2.2 2.1 * 1.9 1.7
Herpes 1.6 1.5 2.1 1.5 0.6 * 0.6 1.1
RH Sensitive 2.0 2.4 0.6 1.1 1.1 * 2.1 0.8
Hypertension, chronic 1.2 1.0 1.9 1.7 0.6 * 0.5 0.6
Previous infant 4,000+ grams 1.2 1.4 0.3 1.9 0.5 * 0.7 0.8
Drug Use 0.9 0.7 1.9 1.7 * * * 0.6
Previous preterm or
small-for-gestational age infant
0.9 0.9 1.0 1.5 0.8 - 1.0 0.6
At least one medical risk 35.5 33.9 43.0 37.9 31.7 27.5 41.5 31.6



Note:   Records with race not stated are included only in the "All Races" column.  Births with at least one medical risk does not equal the sum of all the risk factors specified because mothers may have multiple risk factors.
Asterisk (*) indicates that data do not meet standards of reliability or precision.
Source: 2006 Michigan Resident Birth File, Division for Vital Records & Health Statistics, Michigan Department of Community Health .

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