NIH R01 · 2025
Racial disparities in preterm births and fetal losses
Project Summary (30 lines) Preterm birth (<37 weeks of gestation) increases the risk infant death, hospitalization, developmental disorders, and low educational attainment. Although non-Hispanic (NH) Black mothers show an increased risk (vs. NH whites) of delivering preterm, NH Black infants historically show―at each gestational age before term―improved health and survival relative to NH white infants. The main explanation for this counterintuitive finding assumes greater selection against frail NH Black fetuses. According to the selection argument, excess fetal loss among frail NH Black gestations results in a hardier cohort of survivors to birth but who are delivered preterm. Prior work…
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