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#prematurity — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. By sifting through #electronic #health records of moms and babies using a machine-learning #algorithm, #scientists can predict how at-risk #newborns will fare in their first two months of life. The new method allows #physicians to classify, at or before #birth, which #infants are likely to develop complications of #prematurity.
    #Medical #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2023/02/med02162301

  2. A larger share of infants born to mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities are born premature or die before age 1 compared to other infants.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/339569

    #PrematureBirths #IDD #Prematurity #Infants #NICHDimpact

  3. Living in an area with high police presence increases the odds of a premature birth for both Black and white residents. Greater police presence in Black vs white neighborhoods may contribute to the persistent Black-White preterm birth disparity.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/348785

    #NICHDimpact #Prematurity #PrematureBirth #Race #RacialDisparity #PretermBirth #Neighborhoods #PolicePresence #NeighborhoodPolicing

  4. Living in an area with high police presence increases the odds of a premature birth for both Black and white residents. Greater police presence in Black vs white neighborhoods may contribute to the persistent Black-White preterm birth disparity.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/348785

    #NICHDimpact #Prematurity #PrematureBirth #Race #RacialDisparity #PretermBirth #Neighborhoods #PolicePresence #NeighborhoodPolicing

  5. Pregnant women exposed to fatal police violence face a small increase in the risk of having a premature birth, particularly among Black mothers.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/336891

    #NICHDimpact #PoliceViolence #RacialEquity #Gender #PrematureBirth #Prematurity

  6. US-born Black Minnesotans who experienced greater segregation, & wider inequalities in education, income, employment, and incarceration were more likely to have #premature or low birthweight babies
    Improving birth outcomes requires multisectoral approach

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/354682
    #Demography #Sociology #SocialScience #Research #Data #Segregation #Inequality #Education #Incarceration #Family #Children #Health #Healthcare #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Fertility #Birth #Prematurity #NICHDimpact

  7. #OnThisDay #SuezCanal in Egypt opened, linking Mediterranean and Red seas (1869).

    David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls (1855).

    Today is World #Prematurity Day.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news