The findings are published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines preterm birth as any birth that occurs prior to 37 weeks of gestation.

A separate study by Trasande, published in January, documented $249 billion in disease costs, excluding preterm birth ... a professor of reproductive epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School ...

The outcomes provided an overview of the epidemiology-associated variables of preterm birth relative to their biological covariates. In this way, Camilo A. Espinosa and colleagues used a large ...

Asma M. Ahmed, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine In the first known population-based study of preterm birth in North America ...

Preterm birth rates increased in 15.4% of U.S. counties ... Khan, MD, MSc, Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and associate professor of medicine (cardiology) and preventive ...

Globally, preterm birth is the leading cause of infant mortality ... Ahmed, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, former ...

"Understanding the long-term effects of preterm birth can help us develop preventative ... an assistant professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine ...

Pregnant women with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) have an increased risk of giving birth prematurely ... the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics ...

A recently published study in the journal of the American Public Health Association, looking at proactive policing and preterm birth rates in New Orleans ... an assistant professor of epidemiology and ...

Marijuana Use While Pregnant Linked to Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight TUESDAY ... an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health Anschutz Medical Campus in ...