Objective. Previous studies have addressed perinatal outcomes in Hispanic, black, and
white non-Hispanic women and demonstrated that although foreign-born Mexican American
women have many demographic and socioeconomic risk factors, their rates of low birth
weight (LBW) infants and infant mortality are similar to those of white women. This
phenomenon has been termed an epidemiologic paradox. There have been no population-
based studies on women of Asian Indian origin, a relatively new, highly educated, and …