Health Disparity

Women physicians reported that career-related pressures influence pregnancy timing, affect infertility rates and result in career trajectory changes to accommodate family building and parenthood, according to survey results.

In the latest installment of our diversity, equity and inclusion video series with ASGE, Anna H. Owings, DO, discusses racial disparities in treatment initiation and response in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

U.S. regional variations in implicit bias were not associated with breast reconstruction, complications or cost among women with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy, according to results from a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

More fully integrating the midwifery model of care in philosophically aligned health care teams and institutions could be important in addressing disparities and the maternity care crisis in the U.S., according to a published expert review.

County-level preterm birth risk was higher among women with more physical, social and health risk factors as measured by a novel county-level index to quantify maternal vulnerability to adverse outcomes.

Individuals with COVID-19 living in neighborhoods with high walkability and bikeability and less air pollution experienced fewer hospitalizations vs. areas with low mobility and more pollution, according to results published in PLoS ONE.

Children and adolescents who face more racial discrimination from peers, teachers, other adults and society have a higher BMI and waist circumference, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Among veterans with atherosclerotic CVD, those from historically redlined neighborhoods had greater risk for CV events compared with those from the lowest-risk neighborhoods, researchers reported.

Although maternal mortality ratios increased for U.S. women of all races and ethnicities from 1999 to 2023, American Indian, Alaska Native and Black women, specifically, had increased risks for pregnancy-related death, researchers reported.

Using a race-specific equation to interpret lung function of patients waiting for a lung transplant may result in racial bias of transplant allocation, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.