Publications by authors named "Margarita Reina"
Objectives: To investigate the extent to which spatial social polarization is associated with preterm birth among urban African-American and non-Latinx white women, and whether prenatal care modifies this relationship.
Methods: We performed multilevel logistic regression analyses on a 2013-2017 dataset of Chicago vital records (N = 29,179) with appended Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) values for race and income.
Results: Women who resided in the bottom ICE quintile neighborhoods had a preterm birth rate of 11.
Objectives: To examine the association between gun violence and birth outcomes among women in Chicago.
Methods: Using a 5-year set of birth files (2011-2015) merged with census and police data, birth outcomes including low birth weight (LBW, BW < 2500 g), preterm birth (PTB, < 37 weeks gestation), and small-for-gestational-age (SGA, BW < 10th percentile) were examined among non-Hispanic (NH) white, NH black, and Hispanic women in Chicago. Gun violence rates were categorized into tertiles.
Background: The presence of errors in the preanalytical phase is a widely studied topic. However, information regarding the perspective of those professionals involved is rather scant.
Methods: Two focus groups of professionals from Primary Care involved in the preanalytical phase (general practitioners [GP], community nurses [CN], and other auxiliary health workers, including administrative personnel [AHW]) were convened.
Occupational exposure to asbestos and ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis.
Environ Health Perspect
September 2011
Objective: A recent Monographs Working Group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that there is sufficient evidence for a causal association between exposure to asbestos and ovarian cancer. We performed a meta-analysis to quantitatively evaluate this association.
Data Sources: Searches of PubMed and unpublished data yielded a total of 18 cohort studies of women occupationally exposed to asbestos.