ArticleMaternal and child health journal2025
Maternal Sociodemographic Factors, Adiposity, and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Preterm Deliveries Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
introductionPreterm birth represents about 10% of all births in the United States and is known to be influenced by maternal factors, including pre-pregnancy adiposity, measured using BMI. Pre-pregnancy adiposity is influenced by environmental and sociodemographic factors. This exploratory analysis aimed to explore the complex relationship between pre-pregnancy adiposity, sociodemographic factors, and delivery outcomes among preterm deliveries.
methodsIn this retrospective record review study, participants were mothers of infants born before 34 weeks and 6 days gestational age (GA) and admitted to the NICU at Loyola University Medical Center between 2018 and 2020. Maternal data were extracted using EPIC electronic medical record review. We used Chi-square test/Fisher's exact test for categorical variables and Kruskal-Wallis or Mann-Whitney U tests for continuous variables to test for significance across BMI categories. An exploratory multiple linear regression analysis to test the association between gestational age at delivery, obesity/overweight, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity/race was performed and supplemented with permutation testing. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05.
resultsAmong the 27 included participants, the median maternal age was 34 years. The prevalence of pre-pregnancy obesity was 42.9%. Women with obesity/overweight tended to have a lower GA at delivery than women with a normal pre-pregnancy BMI (29.5 weeks vs. 31 weeks, p = 0.073). GA at delivery trended positively with higher socioeconomic status (B = 4.2, 95%CI 1.4-7.0, p = 0.007), and inversely with having overweight/obesity (B=-3.6, 95%CI -5.7- -1.6, p = 0.002), and identifying as non-Hispanic Asian or non-Hispanic Black race/ethnicity (B=-6.3, 95%CI -10.3- -2.4, p = 0.005 and B=-0.50, 95%CI -7.8- -2.2, p = 0.002, respectively). DISCUSSION: In addition to adiposity, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status may be associated with more severe preterm delivery (lower GA). While this exploratory study is limited by the small sample size, our findings highlight the impact of sociodemographic factors on maternal obesity and severity of pregnancy complications in the context of preterm birth with NICU admission.
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.