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ArticleMaternal health, neonatology and perinatology2022

Prematurity and low birth weight: geospatial analysis and recent trends.

Nicholas Peterman, Bradley Kaptur, Morgan Lewis, Lindsey Ades, Kristine Carpenter

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Article in Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Nicholas PetermanCarle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, Champaign, USA.
Bradley KapturCarle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, Champaign, USA. bkaptur2@illinois.edu.
Morgan LewisCarle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, Champaign, USA.
Lindsey AdesCarle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, Champaign, USA.
Kristine CarpenterCarle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, Champaign, USA.

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Abstract

Prematurity and low birth weight are of concern in neonatal health. In this work, geospatial analysis was performed to identify the existence of statistically significant clusters of prematurity and low birth weight using Moran's I. Data was obtained from March of Dimes and the National Center for Health Statistics for the years 2015 to 2019. Analysis demonstrated the presence of hotspot (High-High) and coldspot (Low-Low) geographic clusters of these variables in regions across the United States. Additionally, factorial ANOVA was performed, and revealed the significance of demographic variables of interest. Given the strong relationship between these two variables, regions that are hotspots for one variable, but not the other, are of particular interest for further study.

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ClusterGeospatialLow birth weightNeonatalPrematurity

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PMID35488308
PMCPMC9052599

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