Publications by authors named "L L Jelliffe-Pawlowski"
Background: Population-based databases are valuable for perinatal research. The California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) created a linked birth file covering the years 1991 through 2012. This file includes birth and fetal death certificate records linked to the hospital discharge records of the birthing person and infant.
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- Preterm birth (PTB) is a significant cause of infant health issues in the US, influenced by racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities, indicating a need for further research to understand risk factors.
- Over the past decade, a study analyzed singleton live births in California to examine PTB rates among various racial and ethnic groups and insurance types, finding notable variations.
- The overall PTB rate increased from 6.8% to 7.5% between 2011 and 2022, with the rates varying significantly among different racial groups, showing higher rates in Black individuals with public insurance compared to White individuals with nonpublic insurance.
Importance: Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a major cause of infant death in the US. Previous research suggests that inborn errors of metabolism may contribute to SIDS, yet the relationship between SIDS and biomarkers of metabolism remains unclear.
Objective: To evaluate and model the association between routinely measured newborn metabolic markers and SIDS in combination with established risk factors for SIDS.
The vaginal microbiome's composition varies among ethnicities. However, the evolutionary landscape of the vaginal microbiome in the multi-ethnic context remains understudied. We perform a systematic evolutionary analysis of 351 vaginal microbiome samples from 35 multi-ethnic pregnant women, in addition to two validation cohorts, totaling 462 samples from 90 women.
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