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Homicide in Pregnant and Postpartum versus Nonpregnant and Nonpostpartum Populations: Re-estimation of a Rate Ratio using a Person-time Framework

2026-01-26 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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We aim to re-estimate the national homicide rate ratio between nonpregnant/nonpostpartum and pregnant/postpartum women accounting for person-time exposure, which prior studies overlooked. Using a theoretical framework for descriptive epidemiology, we complete a retrospective analysis to estimate the pregnancy-associated homicide rate and re-estimate the national homicide rate ratio between pregnant/postpartum and nonpregnant/nonpostpartum populations in 2020. We use National Vital Statistics Sys...

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