Christine Field, William A Grobman, Lynn M Yee, Jasmine Johnson, Jiqiang Wu, Becky McNeil, Brian Mercer, Hyagriv Simhan, Uma Reddy, Robert M Silver, Samuel Parry, George Saade, Judith Chung, Ronald Wapner, Courtney D Lynch, Kartik K Venkatesh
BACKGROUND: Individual adverse social determinants of health are associated with an increased risk of diabetes in pregnancy, but the relative influences of neighborhood or community-level SDOH is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether living in a neighborhood that had greater socioeconomic disadvantage, was a food desert, or had less walkability was associated with living with pregestational diabetes and developing gestational diabetes. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a secondary analysis from the prospective Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-To-Be...
December 7, 2023: American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM