Environmental and policy factors associated with overweight among adults in Missouri.

Purpose: To measure the association between environmental and policy factors (i.e., community perceptions, community infrastructure, and worksite infrastructure) and being overweight.

Preeclampsia in the parous woman: who is at risk?

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for preeclampsia in second pregnancies and to determine whether gestational age at delivery in the first pregnancy increases the risk of recurrent preeclampsia.

Study Design: We conducted a population-based, case-control study using birth certificate data from the Missouri maternally linked cohort. Data from women delivered of their first 2 singleton pregnancies between 1989 and 1997 (2332 cases with preeclampsia in the second pregnancy and 2370 control cases) were analyzed with logistic regression.

Multistate analysis of factors associated with intimate partner violence.

Background: Reports on prevalence estimates and risk factors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are limited in that they (1) focus on specific subgroup populations that are not representative of all women or (2) involve long questionnaires that are not useful as surveillance tools.

Objectives: To report prevalence estimates and identify demographic and lifestyle factors associated with IPV in a large population-based sample of U.S.