{"id":2253,"date":"2020-11-18T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:36:17","slug":"singleton-preterm-birth-rates-for-racial-and-ethnic-groups-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/18\/singleton-preterm-birth-rates-for-racial-and-ethnic-groups-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Singleton Preterm Birth Rates for Racial and Ethnic Groups during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In California, the lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic was not associated with changes in the overall rate of pre-term birth (&lt;37 weeks), although there was an increase in the rate of birth at less than 32 weeks. During a 4-month period following the state-wide COVID-19 lockdown in California in March, 2020, there was no significant change in the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>rate<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>of birth at less than 37 weeks gestation) compared to the same 4-month period aggregated over 2016-2019 (74% vs. 73%, OR=1.0, p=0.4). The rate of preterm birth at 28-32 weeks gestation showed an 11% increase (11% vs. 6%, OR=1.1, p=0.004), mostly observed among women who identify as Hispanic or Latinx population.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Main et al. (Oct 22, 2020). Singleton Preterm Birth Rates for Racial and Ethnic Groups during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in California. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajog.2020.10.033\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajog.2020.10.033<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California, the lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic was not associated with changes in the overall rate of pre-term birth (&lt;37 weeks), although there was an increase in the rate of birth at less than 32 weeks. During a 4-month period following the state-wide COVID-19 lockdown in California in March, 2020, there was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/18\/singleton-preterm-birth-rates-for-racial-and-ethnic-groups-during-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic-in-california\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,50],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-infant","tag-pregnancy","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}