{"doi":"10.1055/a-2099-8494","title":"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Stillbirth among Pregnant Women with Obesity","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between obesity and risk of stillbirth among pregnant women with obesity in the United States, with a focus on racial and ethnic disparities. STUDY DESIGN: = 14,938,384 total births) to examine associations between maternal body mass index (BMI) and risk of stillbirth. Cox's proportional hazards regression model was used to compute adjusted hazard ratios (HR) as a measure of risk of stillbirth in relation to maternal BMI. RESULTS: The stillbirth rate was 6.70 per 1,000 births among women with prepregnancy obesity, while the stillbirth rate among women with a normal (nonobese) prepregnancy BMI was 3.85 per 1,000 births. The risk of stillbirth was greater among women with obesity compared with women without obesity (HR: 1.39; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.37-1.41). Compared with non-Hispanic (NH) Whites, women identifying as NH-other (HR: 1.66; 95% CI: 1.61-1.72) and NH-Black (HR: 1.31; 95% CI: 1.26-1.35) were at higher risk of stillbirth, while Hispanic women had a decreased likelihood of stillbirth (HR: 0.38; 95% CI: 0.37-0.40). CONCLUSION: Obesity is a modifiable risk factor for stillbirth. Public health awareness campaigns and strategies targeting weight management in women of reproductive age and racial/ethnic populations at highest risk for stillbirth, are needed. KEY POINTS: · Stillbirth rates differ by race and ethnicity.. · Risk of stillbirth was greatest among women with obesity.. · Stillbirth rates rise with ascending prepregnancy BMI..","journal":"American Journal of Perinatology","year":2023,"id":384968,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9115,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1152738,"name":"Veronica Ajewole","orcid":"0000-0002-6619-2979","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1153163,"name":"Kiara K. Spooner","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1152739,"name":"Vincent Tran","orcid":"0000-0002-9595-8670","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1152740,"name":"Tolulope Adebusuyi","orcid":"0000-0002-6526-3309","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":552588,"name":"Collins Onyenaka","orcid":"0000-0002-3506-1685","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1153164,"name":"Oluwatoyin Bakare","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1153165,"name":"Clinton Emeh","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1153166,"name":"Kameren Baines","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1153167,"name":"Danielle Boua","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1153168,"name":"Yhenew T. Mossi","orcid":null,"position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1152741,"name":"Anuoluwapo Egbejimi","orcid":"0000-0002-6621-1252","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1152742,"name":"Samira R Ibrahim","orcid":"0000-0002-4764-7341","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":374824,"name":"Omonike A. Olaleye","orcid":"0000-0001-5909-1507","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":820637,"name":"Hamisu M. Salihu","orcid":"0000-0002-7829-4200","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":820636,"name":"Deepa Dongarwar","orcid":"0000-0002-7338-0636","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":20,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:17:48.629718Z","pmid":"37230474","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}