Census Tract-Level Social Vulnerability and Gonorrhea Rates in Central Ohio: Results From the STD Surveillance Network, 2020-2021.

Background: Gonorrhea remains a significant burden in central Ohio, particularly in socially disadvantaged communities. This study evaluates gonorrhea case rates and changes from 2020 to 2021, focusing on geographic patterns associated with social vulnerability.

Methods: We analyzed gonorrhea case data from the Columbus STD Surveillance Network for 2020 and 2021.

Associations Between Childhood Sexual Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence Trauma Exposure, Mental Health, and Social Gender Affirmation Among Black Transgender Women.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to examine associations between social gender affirmation and mental health outcomes. The resulting relationships were explored within the context of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and intimate partner violence (IPV) trauma history.

Materials And Methods: A community sample of 138 Black trans women completed structured interviews assessing gender affirmation, mental health, and trauma history.

Quality improvement initiative to impact Golden Hour timeliness using a dedicated delivery team.

Objective: Golden Hour (GH) care impacts immediate and long-term outcomes for premature infants. We hypothesized that creation of a dedicated delivery team, the Stork Team, would improve delivery of GH care.

Methods: A GH quality improvement initiative was created for infants born at <32 weeks and implemented in July 2018.

Prepregnancy and Gestational Diabetes and Cessation of Breastfeeding <1 Week Postpartum, United States, 2016-2018.

Objectives: Diabetes may delay milk letdown, and perceiving milk production as insufficient can lead to breastfeeding cessation. We evaluated whether prepregnancy or gestational diabetes is associated with cessation of breastfeeding by 1 week postpartum.

Methods: We analyzed 2016-2018 data from 42 sites in the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, a population-based survey of women with a recent live birth.

County socioeconomic characteristics and heart transplant outcomes in the United States.

Background: Geographic disparities in survival after heart transplantation have received mixed support in prior studies, and specific geographic characteristics that might be responsible for these differences are unclear. We tested for differences in heart transplant outcomes across United States (US) counties after adjustment for individual-level covariates. Our secondary aim was to evaluate whether specific county-level socioeconomic characteristics explained geographic disparities in survival.