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An assessment of environmental and neighborhood-level risk factors for subfertility among Black women in the U.S.

对美国黑人女性生育力低下的环境和社区风险因素的评估

基本信息

批准号：
10636026
负责人：
Amelia Kent Wesselink
金额：
$ 40.48万
依托单位：
BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-04-10 至 2028-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10636026
关键词：
Address Affect Air Pollution Aircraft American Assisted Reproductive Technology Black race Body mass index Caring Censuses Classification Clinic Color Communities Conceptions Couples Data Data Set Disparity Disparity population Economics Education Employment Enrollment Environment Environmental Exposure Environmental Hazards Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Equity Exposure to Factor Analysis Female infertility Fertility Fertility Study Government Government Programs Green space Health Human Income Inequality Inequity Infertility Intention Intervention Investments Life Cycle Stages Link Live Birth Maps Measures Medical Methods Modeling Modernization National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Neighborhoods Nitrogen Dioxide Noise Occupations Outcome Ozone Participant Particulate Matter Pathway interactions Pattern Planned Pregnancy Policies Pregnancy Pregnancy Histories Principal Component Analysis Prospective, cohort study Public Health Race Recording of previous events Reporting Reproduction Reproductive Health Research Risk Risk Assessment Risk Factors Scholarship Shapes Societies Socioeconomic Status Statistical Methods Stereotyping Time Toxic Environmental Substances Treatment outcome United States Woman Women&apos s Health Work aged black women cohort early pregnancy environmental health disparity epidemiology study experience hazard health disparity health equity high risk indexing infertility treatment meter neighborhood disadvantage novel racial disparity racism recruit reproductive reproductive epidemiology research clinical testing residential segregation segregation shift work social socioeconomic disadvantage structural determinants study population subfertility success theories time-to-pregnancy trying to conceive virtual

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY Infertility is an important public health problem that affects up to 15% of reproductive-aged couples in the United States. Black women experience infertility at approximately two times the rate of white women, yet are less likely to seek medical care and have poorer fertility treatment outcomes. Despite this disparity, epidemiologic research on infertility has largely been conducted among economically privileged white couples seeking treatment at fertility clinics. Studies of fertility that enroll women during preconception or early pregnancy have likewise had limited success in recruiting Black women. Thus, there has been virtually no study of causes of infertility in Black women. Racial residential segregation and racialized patterns of neighborhood investment and disinvestment have resulted in inequitable burdens of spatially-distributed environmental exposures on communities of color. In the present proposal, we examine several exposures of high relevance to Black women, with a focus on environmental and neighborhood-level exposures. We will use data from the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS), the largest study in existence focusing on the health of Black women. BWHS recruited 59,000 Black women from the United States in 1995 and have followed them biennially for over 25 years. Outcome information was collected retrospectively in 2011, when women reported information on time-to-pregnancy (TTP) for each of their planned pregnancies that ended in a live birth, whether they had ever tried to conceive for >12 months without success, and if so, what cause was identified. We will use these data to examine the association of TTP, infertility, and cause-specific infertility, with 1) historical redlining, a 1930s government sponsored policy in which neighborhoods were classified by investment risk based largely on the presence of Black residents, 2) residential racial and economic segregation and neighborhood socioeconomic status, and 3) residential environmental exposures (including air pollution, green space, and environmental noise). Finally, we will explore how redlining grades are associated with patterns of neighborhood disadvantage and environmental pollution and how mixtures of social and environmental exposures are related to fertility. Exposures will be derived from linkage between BWHS participant addresses (collected biennially from 1995-2011) with geospatial data sets. The proposed study is likely to have a large and sustained impact on the fields of reproductive epidemiology, environmental health, and health disparities. The centering of Black women in infertility research advances health equity, combats racist stereotypes that propagate the idea that infertility is a non-issue for Black women, and allows for the identification of opportunities for intervention to reduce and eliminate infertility disparities. This will be the first study to focus on causes of infertility in Black women, and is highly relevant for understanding how the environment shapes human reproduction.

项目总结