Rationale Persistent racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes are not fully explained by
individual-level risk factors. Racial residential segregation–degree to which two or more …

Purpose Because preapproval clinical trials typically exclude pregnant women, the evidence
on drug safety during pregnancy required to inform drug labeling must come from …

Purpose Given incomplete data reporting by race, we used data on COVID-19 cases and
deaths in US counties to describe racial disparities in COVID-19 disease and death and …

Advances in neonatal intensive care have improved outcomes for preterm newborns, but
significant racial/ethnic disparities persist. Neonatal disparities have their origin in a complex …

Racial and ethnic disparities in adverse birth outcomes have persistently been wide and
may be explained by individual and area-level factors. Our primary objective was to …

While black-white segregation has been consistently linked to detrimental health outcomes
for blacks, whether segregation is necessarily a zero-sum arrangement in which some …

We examined whether current and/or persistent racial residential segregation is associated
with black-white stillbirth disparities among 49,969 black and 71,785 white births from the …

Prior research has found that a high level of residential racial segregation, or the degree to
which racial/ethnic groups are isolated from one another, is associated with worsened infant …

Objective Our objective was to incorporate social and built environment factors into a
compendium of multilevel factors among a cohort of very low birth weight infants to …

The lasting health and social effects of the US federal housing policies that created racial
residential segregation have been substantial. We aim to evaluate the association between …