ArticleJournal of women's health (2002)2017
Racial Differences in the Association Between Maternal Antenatal Depression and Preterm Birth Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Article in Journal of women's health (2002), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Depression and antidepressant use in pregnancy and adverse maternal and offspring outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Association between depression during pregnancy and preterm birth: Results from population cohorts and mouse experimental models.PloS one · 2026Article
- Risk of adverse infant outcomes associated with maternal mental health and substance use disorders.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Partner's problematic social media use, woman's time perspective, and prenatal depression.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review of Preterm Birth Risk Factors.American journal of perinatology · 2024Article
- Anxiety, depression, and perceived wellbeing in antenatal women at risk of preterm birth: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Reducing psychiatric illness in the perinatal period: A review and commentary.World journal of psychiatry · 2023Review
- Antepartum Depression and Preterm Birth: Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, and Disparities due to structural racism.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Racial differences in weathering and its associations with psychosocial stress: The CARDIA study.SSM - population health · 2019Article
- The unique contribution of gendered racial stress to depressive symptoms among pregnant Black women.Women's health (London, England)Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundIn the United States, racial/ethnic disparities in preterm birth (PTB) are well documented, but explanations for why the disparity persists remain to be fully explored. We examined racial/ethnic differences in the association of maternal antenatal depression with PTB (<37 completed weeks of gestation) risk.
methodsIn a prospective cohort study, participants (n = 2073) included non-Hispanic (NH) black, NH white, Asian, and Hispanic women who received prenatal care at a university obstetric clinic January 2004-March 2010, and delivered at the university's hospital. We obtained data from self-reported questionnaires and electronic medical records. We assessed antenatal depression using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and self-reported antenatal antidepressant medication use. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the association between antenatal depression and PTB risk, within strata of race/ethnicity.
resultsNH black (risk ratio [RR] = 1.89; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.94, 3.80), NH white (RR = 1.58, 95% CI: 1.04, 2.39), and Asian (RR = 2.06; 95% CI: 0.69, 6.13) women with antenatal depression were at increased risk for delivering preterm infants, compared with women without antenatal depression, although the associations were statistically significant only among NH white women. There was no evidence of an association between antenatal depression and risk of PTB among Hispanic women (RR = 0.96; 95% CI: 0.28, 3.25); p-value for interaction = 0.81.
conclusionOur findings suggest race-specific associations of antenatal depression with an increased risk of delivering a preterm infant, supporting the importance of considering race/ethnicity when examining risk factors for health outcomes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.