ArticlePaediatric and perinatal epidemiology2019
Report of the Office of Population Affairs' expert work group meeting on short birth spacing and adverse pregnancy outcomes: Methodological quality of existing studies and future directions for research.
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- Factors associated with short birth interval in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Pooled it
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- Geospatial analysis of area-level social and behavioral factors associated with short interpregnancy intervals in North Carolina, U.S.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Interpregnancy interval and adverse perinatal outcomes: A within-individual comparative method.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Interpregnancy interval and adverse birth outcomes: a population-based cohort study of twins.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- The risk of perinatal mortality following short inter-pregnancy intervals-insights from 692 402 pregnancies in 113 Demographic and Health Surveys from 46 countries: a population-based analysis.The Lancet. Global health · 2023Article
- The role of intervening pregnancy loss in the association between interpregnancy interval and adverse pregnancy outcomes.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2022Article
- Interpregnancy Interval and Subsequent Severe Maternal Morbidity: A 16-Year Population-Based Study From California.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Risk factors and child outcomes associated with short and long interpregnancy intervals.Early child development and care · 2021Article
- Interpregnancy intervals and adverse birth outcomes in high-income countries: An international cohort study.PloS one · 2021Article
- Beyond birth outcomes: Interpregnancy interval and injury-related infant mortality.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2019Article
- Risks of preterm birth among non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white women: Effect modification by maternal age.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2019Article
- Short interpregnancy interval as a risk factor for preterm birth in non-Hispanic Black and White women in California.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2019Article
- Good practices for the design, analysis, and interpretation of observational studies on birth spacing and perinatal health outcomes.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2019Article
- Report of the Office of Population Affairs' expert work group meeting on short birth spacing and adverse pregnancy outcomes: Methodological quality of existing studies and future directions for research.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2019Article
- Short interpregnancy interval and poor fetal growth: Evaluating the role of pregnancy intention.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that women wait at least 24 months after a livebirth before attempting a subsequent pregnancy to reduce the risk of adverse maternal, perinatal, and infant health outcomes. However, the applicability of the WHO recommendations for women in the United States is unclear, as breast feeding, nutrition, maternal age at first birth, and total fertility rate differs substantially between the United States and the low- and middle-resource countries upon which most of the evidence is based.
methodsTo inform guideline development for birth spacing specific to women in the United States, the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) convened an expert work group meeting in Washington, DC, on 14-15 September 2017 among reproductive, perinatal, paediatric, social, and public health epidemiologists; obstetrician-gynaecologists; biostatisticians; and experts in evidence synthesis related to women's health.
resultsPresentations and discussion topics included the methodological quality of existing studies, evaluation of the evidence for causal effects of short interpregnancy intervals on adverse perinatal and maternal health outcomes, good practices for future research, and identification of research gaps and priorities for future work.
conclusionsThis report provides an overview of the presentations, discussions, and conclusions from the expert work group meeting.
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