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Psychosomatic Medicine 36:513-524 (1974)
© 1974 American Psychosomatic Society

Heart Rate Levels of Black and White Newborns

JOSEPH SCHACHTER MD, PHD1, JOYCE L. KERR PHD1, FRANCIS C. WIMBERLY III 2, and JOHN M. LACHIN III 3

1 Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3 The Biostatistics Center, Department of Statistics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Among a low socioeconomic class urban population in northeastern United States, black newborns had higher heart rate levels during sleep than white newborns. This difference could be accounted for by none of the perinatal variables studied including proportion of rapid-eye-movement sleep, degree of motor activity, amount of crying, birth weight or gestational age. The speculative possibility that the elevated heart rate in these black newborns is one precursor of hypertensive disease is discussed.

Revised on June 7, 1974






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