Alejandra Barreto

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 9,468 confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in Ecuador and found that men are at higher risk of dying from COVID19 than women, and risk increases with age and the presence of comorbidities.

TL;DR: It is shown that men are at higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than women, which increases as with age and the presence of comorbidities, and cantons located above 2,500 m have lower attack and mortality rates although the risk of Dying is greater among highlanders.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors discuss the barriers to the recruitment of immigrant Hispanic people in perinatal research and present a strategy to overcome these barriers and to increase the number of immigrants working in the field.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors summarizes fifty years of research regarding differences in low, preterm birth, and infant mortality in the US, according to the nativity status of the birthing person.

TL;DR: In this paper , a retrospective cohort study used restricted US National Vital Statistics data of singleton births from 2014-2018 (N=18,501,156) to assess associations of maternal race, ethnicity and nativity (i.e. birthplace) with PTB both overall (<37 weeks) and stratified into late (34-<37 weeks), moderate (29-<34 weeks), and extremely preterm (< 29 weeks).