Does the father's job matter? Parental occupation and preterm birth in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Limited evidence is available regarding the impact of paternal occupation and its combined effect with maternal occupation on preterm birth. Therefore, we assessed the association of maternal and paternal occupations with preterm birth.

Methods

We used the national birth data of Korea between 2010 and 2020. Parental occupations were divided into 5 categories: (1) managers; (2) professionals, technicians, and related workers; (3) clerks and support workers; (4) service and sales workers; and (5) manual workers. A multinomial logistic regression model was used to calculate the adjusted odds ratios (aORs) of extremely, very, and moderate-to-late preterm births per occupational category considering individual risk factors.

Results

For the 4,004,976 singleton bi

SUBMITTER: Kim T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10728619 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature