Stillbirths in the United States

JAMA

2025-10-27

(Press-News.org) About The Study: This study characterizes stillbirth rates between 2016 and 2022 across clinical risk factors and geographic-based measures of access, income, and race in a large U.S. commercially insured population.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Jessica L. Cohen, PhD, email cohenj@hsph.harvard.edu.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2025.17392)

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