Describing Adverse Pregnancy Events and Pregnancy-Associated Death Among Veterans.

Veterans who use VA pregnancy benefits may be at high risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes; however, little is known about rates of adverse pregnancy events or pregnancy-associated death among Veterans. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using VA national administrative data for Veterans ages 18-45 with at least one pregnancy outcome between October 2009 and September 2016 and a VA primary care visit within one year prior to pregnancy. We identified adverse events during pregnancy and up to 42 days after pregnancy and all-cause mortality within one year of pregnancy and compared prevalence of adverse events by Veteran race/ethnicity using adjusted logistic regression.

Nonsurgical removal of a massive calcification of the shoulder.

Calcific tendinopathy of the shoulder is a prevalent and painful condition marked by calcific deposits in the rotator cuff tendons or subacromial bursa, with an incidence of 2.7% to 20%, predominantly affecting individuals aged 30 to 50. Women are 1.

Abortion After Pregnancy Occurrence with Contraceptive Use Among Veterans.

Many people report becoming pregnant while using contraception. Understanding more about this phenomenon may provide insight into pregnant people's responses to and healthcare needs for these pregnancies. This study explores the outcome (e.

"You want people to listen to you": Patient experiences of women's healthcare within the Veterans Health Administration.

Objective: To identify constructs that are critical in shaping Veterans' experiences with Veterans Health Administration (VA) women's healthcare, including any which have been underexplored or are not included in current VA surveys of patient experience.

Data Sources And Study Setting: From June 2022 to January 2023, we conducted 28 semi-structured interviews with a diverse, national sample of Veterans who use VA women's healthcare.

Study Design: Using VA data, we divided Veteran VA-users identified as female into four groups stratified by age (dichotomized at age 45) and race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic White vs.

Structural gendered racism and preterm birth inequities in the United States.

Structural gendered racism - the "totality of interconnectedness between structural racism and sexism" - is conceptualized as a fundamental cause of the persistent preterm birth inequities experienced by Black and Indigenous people in the United States. Our objective was to develop a state-level latent class measure of structural gendered racism and examine its association with preterm birth among all singleton live births in the US in 2019. Using previously-validated inequity indicators between White men and Black women across 9 domains (education, employment, poverty, homeownership, health insurance, segregation, voting, political representation, incarceration), we conducted a latent profile analysis to identify a latent categorical variable with k number of classes that have similar values on the observed continuous input variables.