Credit: Hot Pink Ink for the SD Department of Health
During pregnancy, American Indian mothers are less likely to consume alcohol and no more likely to smoke than white mothers in South Dakota after adjusting for socioeconomic factors, according to South Dakota State University Professor Bonny Specker, director of the Ethel Austin Martin Program in Human Nutrition. Specker and her colleagues collected data on South Dakota women who had babies in 2014 through a survey that mirrored the Centers for Disease and Prevention Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System.