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Modeling Perinatal Outcomes In Disaggregated Asian American Subgroups, Suditi Shyamsunder
Modeling Perinatal Outcomes In Disaggregated Asian American Subgroups, Suditi Shyamsunder
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Asian mothers, as an aggregate, may be at increased risk for adverse perinatal outcomes, but heterogeneity between disaggregated Asian American subgroups is an understudied topic. The first objective of this study is to examine differences in perinatal outcomes between disaggregated Asian American subgroups and differences compared to Non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). The second goal is to develop models to predict gestational diabetes, one perinatal outcome, in Asian Indian mothers to see how precision medicine may be able to advance pregnancy care. Using the National Vital Statistics System Natality Dataset (n=10,823,868), odds ratios (OR) were calculated with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for …