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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central Research article Open Access A population-based study of race-specific risk for placental abruption Tammy T Shen 1,2, Emily A DeFranco2,3, David M Stamilio2,3, Jen Jen Chang2,4 and Louis J Muglia* 1,2,3 Address: 1Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2Center for Preterm Birth Research, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA and 4Department of Community Health in Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Email: Tammy T Shen - shent@; Emily A DeFranco - defrancoe@; David M Stamilio - stamiliod@; Jen Jen Chang - jjchang@; Louis J Muglia* - muglia_l@ * Corresponding author Published: 12 September 2008 Received: 8 May 2008 Accepted: 12 September 2008 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008, 8:43 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-8-43 This article is available from: /1471-2393/8/43 © 2008 Shen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Efforts to elucidate risk factors for placental abruption are imperative due to the severity of complications it produces for both mother and fetus, and its contribution to preterm birth. Ethnicity-based d