{"id":101364,"date":"2019-01-24T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/do-economic-conditions-affect-pregnancy-outcomes\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:26:29","slug":"do-economic-conditions-affect-pregnancy-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/do-economic-conditions-affect-pregnancy-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Do economic conditions affect pregnancy outcomes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Economic downturn during early pregnancy was linked with modest increases in preterm birth in a <em>Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology<\/em> analysis. <\/p>\n<p>For the analysis, researchers examined a dataset of all singleton births in Michigan from 1990-2012. Each one percentage point increase in state unemployment in the first trimester of pregnancy was associated with a modest 3% increase in the odds of preterm birth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rates of preterm birth in the U.S. are higher than other developed nations, and we don&#8217;t really know why. Our research indicates a need for increased attention by clinicians and the public health community to the potential role of broader socioeconomic factors&#8211;in this case, the economy&#8211;to pregnancy health,&#8221; said lead author Dr. Claire E. Margerison, of Michigan State University.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>Josh Glickman<br \/>newsroom@wiley.com<br \/>http:\/\/dx.<wbr>doi.<wbr>org\/<wbr>10.<wbr>1111\/<wbr>ppe.<wbr>12534 <i class=\"fa fa-sign-out\"><\/i><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic downturn during early pregnancy was linked with modest increases in preterm birth in a Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology analysis. For the analysis, researchers examined a dataset of all singleton births in Michigan from 1990-2012. Each one percentage point increase in state unemployment in the first trimester of pregnancy was associated with a modest 3% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[391,293,334,419,429],"class_list":["post-101364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-gynecology","tag-medicine-health","tag-public-health","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-socioeconomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}