Effects of race and ethnicity on perinatal outcomes in high-income and upper-middle-income countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 2 198 655 pregnancies

Jameela Sheikh, John Allotey, Tania Kew, Borja M. Fernández‐Félix, Javier Zamora, Asma Khalil, Shakila Thangaratinam, Mali Abdollahain, Ary I. Savitri, Kjell Å. Salvesen, Sohinee Bhattacharya, Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal, Annetine Staff, Louise Bjørkholt Andersen, Elisa Llurba Olive, George Daskalakis, Maureen Macleod, B. Thilaganathan, J. Arenas Ramírez, Jacques Massé, François Audibert, Per Magnus, Line Sletner, Ahmet Baschat, Akihide Ohkuchi, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Jane West, Lisa Askie, Fionnuala Mone, Diane Farrar, Peter A. Zimmerman, Luc Smits, Catherine Riddell, John‏ Kingdom, Joris van de Post, Sebastián E. Illanes, Claudia Holzman, Sander M. J. van Kuijk, Lionel Carbillon, Pia Villa, Anne Eskild, Lucy C. Chappell, Federico Prefumo, Luxmi Velauthar, Paul T. Seed, Miriam F. van Oostwaard, Stefan Verlohren, Lucilla Poston, E. Ferrazzi, Christina Anne Vinter, Chie Nagata, Mark Brown, Karlijn C. Vollebregt, Satoru Takeda, Josje Langenveld, Mariana Widmer, Shigeru Saito, Camilla Haavaldsen, Guillermo Carroli, Jørn Olsen, Hans Wolf, Nelly Zavaleta, Inge Eisensee, Patrizia Vergani, Pisake Lumbiganon, Maria Makrides, Fabio Facchinetti, E Sequeira, Robert A. Gibson, Sergio Ferrazzani, T. Frusca, Ernesto Antônio Figueiró-Filho, Olav Lapaire, Hannele Laivuori, Jacob Alexander Lykke, Agustín Conde‐Agudelo, Alberto Galindo, Alfred K. Mbah, Ana Pilar Betrán, Ignacio Herraı̀z, Lill Trogstad, Gordon G.S. Smith, Eric A.P. Steegers, Read Salim, Tianhua Huang, Annemarijne Adank, Jun Zhang, Wendy S. Meschino, Joyce L. Browne, Rebecca Allen, Fabrício da Silva Costa, Kerstin Klipstein‐Grobusch, Jan Stener Jørgensen, Jean‐Claude Forest, Alice Rumbold, Ben Willem Mol, Yves Giguère, Wessel Ganzevoort, Anthony Odibo, Jenny Myers

The Lancet · 2022

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Summary

BACKGROUND: Existing evidence on the effects of race and ethnicity on pregnancy outcomes is restricted to individual studies done within specific countries and health systems. We aimed to assess the impact of race and ethnicity on perinatal outcomes in high-income and upper-middle-income countries, and to ascertain whether the magnitude of disparities, if any, varied across geographical regions. METHODS: For this individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis we used data from the International Prediction of Pregnancy Complications (IPPIC) Network of studies on pregnancy complications; the full dataset comprised 94 studies, 53 countries, and 4 539 640 pregnancies. We included studies that reported perinatal outcomes (neonatal death, stillbirth, preterm birth, and small-for-gestational-age

Source type: Peer-reviewed study
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01191-6
Catalogue ID: SNmoj1yjf8-kym62j

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