RESEARCH ARTICLE

Social disadvantage and the black-white disparity in spontaneous preterm delivery among California births Suzan L. Carmichael1*, Peiyi Kan1, Amy M. Padula2, David H. Rehkopf3, John W. Oehlert1, Jonathan A. Mayo1, Ann M. Weber1, Paul H. Wise1, Gary M. Shaw1, David K. Stevenson1

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1 Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America, 2 Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, 3 Division of General Medical Disciplines, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America * [email protected]

Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Carmichael SL, Kan P, Padula AM, Rehkopf DH, Oehlert JW, Mayo JA, et al. (2017) Social disadvantage and the black-white disparity in spontaneous preterm delivery among California births. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0182862. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0182862 Editor: Abigail Fraser, University of Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM Received: April 27, 2017 Accepted: July 25, 2017 Published: August 11, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Carmichael et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: The data are publicly available from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). The data are not available for replication because specific approvals from OSHPD and the California Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects have to be obtained in order to access them. Requests for data may be sent to: Healthcare Information Resource Center 400 R Street, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95811-6213 Tel: (916) 3263802 [email protected].

We examined the contribution of social disadvantage to the black-white disparity in preterm birth. Analyses included linked vital and hospital discharge records from 127,358 black and 615,721 white singleton California births from 2007–11. Odds ratios (OR) were estimated by 4 logistic regression models for 2 outcomes: early (

Social disadvantage and the black-white disparity in spontaneous preterm delivery among California births.

We examined the contribution of social disadvantage to the black-white disparity in preterm birth. Analyses included linked vital and hospital dischar...
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