Neighbourhood assets and early pregnancy cardiometabolic risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prepregnancy cardiometabolic risk factors are associated with increased risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Neighbourhood features may reflect prepregnancy exposures that contribute to poor cardiometabolic health before pregnancy and may contribute to racial disparities in pregnancy outcomes.

Methods

Early pregnancy measurements from 1504 women enrolled in the Prenatal Exposures and Preeclampsia Prevention study were linked to a 2000 Census-based measure of neighbourhood socio-economic status and commercial data (food, alcohol, and retail density) during 1997-2001. Multilevel random-intercept linear regression was used to separately estimate the association between levels of neighbourhood assets (low, mid-low, mid-high, high) and C-reactive protein (CRP), systoli

SUBMITTER: Assibey-Mensah V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353674 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature