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Adverse Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes Among Marshallese Women Living in the United States
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Nov 2019
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Source: Matern Child Health J. 23(11):1525-1535
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Alternative Title:Matern Child Health J
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Description:Objective:
Despite heterogeneity among Pacific Islanders, most studies aggregate them regardless of origin. Thus, limited information is available about perinatal outcomes among various subgroups of Pacific Islanders in the United States, including immigrants from the Republic of the Marshall Islands. We sought to evaluate perinatal outcomes among Marshallese women.
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We conducted a cross-sectional study of women with at least one singleton live birth between 1997 and 2013 in two Arkansas counties using birth certificate data from the Arkansas Department of Health. Unadjusted and adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated from modified Poisson regression models.
Results:
Of the 91,662 singleton births in both counties during the study period, 2,488 were to Marshallese women. In adjusted analyses, Marshallese women had higher prevalence of “other medical risk factors” (PR=1.47; 95% CI: 1.30, 1.65) than NH white women. Marshallese women had higher rates of precipitous labor and fetal distress during labor compared to NH white women (PR=2.65; 95% CI: 2.22, 3.17 and 1.89; 95% CI: 1.62, 2.21, respectively). Marshallese were also more likely to have tocolysis (PR=1.43; 95% CI: 1.16, 1.76), forceps (PR=1.68; 95% CI: 1.16, 2.43) or vacuum (PR=1.89; 95% CI: 1.60, 2.22) used in delivery and cesarean section (PR=1.13; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.27). Marshallese infants had a higher rates of anemia (PR=3.10; 95% CI: 2.01, 4.77), birth injury (PR=2.13; 95% CI: 1.50, 3.03), assisted ventilation <30 minutes (PR=2.11; 95% CI: 1.64, 2.71), preterm birth (PR=1.67; 95% CI: 1.50, 1.83), and small-for-gestational age (PR=1.25; 95% CI: 1.12–1.39) than NH white infants.
Conclusions:
Marshallese women and infants had higher rates of adverse perinatal outcomes compared to their NH white counterparts. Additional studies are needed to determine if perinatal outcomes among the Marshallese differed from other Pacific Islander subgroups.
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Pubmed ID:31228148
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC7239320
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Volume:23
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Issue:11
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