الأربعاء، 17 أكتوبر 2018

Spike in premature births among Latinas linked to Trump's win

Premature births among Latinas increased from 7.3% to 8.4% according to New York City Health Department research

Latina immigrants in New York City have seen a spike in premature births – an increase that researchers with the city Health Department say may be tied to the shock win by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

The study released Wednesday by the Health Department and Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health compared births in the city in the months before Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, from September 2015 through July 2016, with births in the months after he was inaugurated, from January to August 2017.

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