{"title":"Current Comment.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.18739","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2024.18739","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":"641"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143023915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hermioni L Amonoo, Preeti N Malani, Stephen M Schenkel
{"title":"Expanding Palliative Care Access-Bridging Gaps in Diverse Clinical Settings.","authors":"Hermioni L Amonoo, Preeti N Malani, Stephen M Schenkel","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.24947","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2024.24947","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":"574-575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142983969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Consequences of Legislative Regulation in Medicine.","authors":"Richard Todd Ivey","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.0381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.0381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secret Part-Time.","authors":"Tyra L Fainstad","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.28798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.28798","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alison Gemmill, Alexander M Franks, Selena Anjur-Dietrich, Amy Ozinsky, David Arbour, Elizabeth A Stuart, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, Suzanne O Bell
{"title":"US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality.","authors":"Alison Gemmill, Alexander M Franks, Selena Anjur-Dietrich, Amy Ozinsky, David Arbour, Elizabeth A Stuart, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, Suzanne O Bell","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.28517","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2024.28517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>The impact of recent abortion bans on infant mortality is not fully understood. There is also limited evidence on how these bans may interact with long-standing racial and ethnic disparities in infant health.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine the association of abortion bans with changes in infant mortality and to compare this association in racial and ethnic groups based on analyses within and across states.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This population-based, serial, cross-sectional study used a bayesian panel model to examine infant mortality rates in 14 states that implemented complete or 6-week abortion bans and compared them with predictions of infant mortality rates based on pre-ban mortality rates and states without bans. Data included all live births and infant deaths from all 50 US states and the District of Columbia for 2012 through 2023. Models accounted for temporal trends and state-specific factors, with analyses stratified by race and ethnicity, timing of death, and cause of death.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Complete or 6-week abortion bans.</p><p><strong>Main outcome and measures: </strong>Infant mortality rate, analyzed overall and by subgroups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The analysis found higher than expected infant mortality in states after adoption of abortion bans (observed vs expected, 6.26 vs 5.93 per 1000 live births; absolute increase, 0.33 [95% credible interval (CrI), 0.14-0.51]; relative increase, 5.60% [95% CrI, 2.43%-8.73%]). This resulted in an estimated 478 excess infant deaths in the 14 states with bans during the months affected by bans. The estimated increases were higher among non-Hispanic Black infants compared with other racial and ethnic groups, with 11.81 observed vs 10.66 expected infant deaths per 1000 live births, an absolute increase of 1.15 (95% CrI, 0.53-1.81) and relative increase of 10.98% (95% CrI, 4.87%-17.89%). The observed infant mortality rate due to congenital anomalies was 1.37 vs 1.24 expected (absolute increase, 0.13 [95% CrI, 0.04-0.21]; relative increase, 10.87% [95% CrI, 3.39%-18.08%]), while the rate not due to congenital anomalies was 4.89 observed vs 4.69 expected (absolute increase, 0.20 [95% CrI, 0.02-0.38]; relative increase, 4.23% [95% CrI, 0.49%-8.23%]). Texas had a dominant influence on the overall results and there were larger increases in southern vs nonsouthern states.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>US states that adopted abortion bans had higher than expected infant mortality after the bans took effect. The estimated relative increases in infant mortality were larger for deaths with congenital causes and among groups that had higher than average infant mortality rates at baseline, including Black infants and those in southern states.</p>","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11826430/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Notice.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.18760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.18760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suzanne O Bell, Alexander M Franks, David Arbour, Selena Anjur-Dietrich, Elizabeth A Stuart, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, Alison Gemmill
{"title":"US Abortion Bans and Fertility.","authors":"Suzanne O Bell, Alexander M Franks, David Arbour, Selena Anjur-Dietrich, Elizabeth A Stuart, Eli Ben-Michael, Avi Feller, Alison Gemmill","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.28527","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2024.28527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Abortion bans may lead to births among those who are unable to overcome barriers to abortion. The population-level effects of these policies, particularly their unequal impacts across subpopulations in the US, remain unclear.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess heterogeneity in the association of abortion bans with changes in fertility in the US, within and across states.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>Drawing from birth certificate and US Census Bureau data from 2012 through 2023 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, this study used a bayesian panel data model to evaluate state-by-subgroup-specific changes in fertility associated with complete or 6-week abortion bans in 14 US states. The average percent and absolute change in the fertility rate among females aged 15 through 44 years was estimated overall and by state, and within and across states by age, race and ethnicity, marital status, education, and insurance payer.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Complete or 6-week abortion ban.</p><p><strong>Main outcome and measures: </strong>Fertility rate (births per 1000 reproductive-aged females) overall and by subgroups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were an estimated 1.01 (95% credible interval [CrI], 0.45-1.64) additional births above expectation per 1000 females aged 15 through 44 years (reproductive age) in states following adoption of abortion bans (60.55 observed vs 59.54 expected; 1.70% increase; 95% CrI, 0.75%-2.78%), equivalent to 22 180 excess births, with evidence of variation by state and subgroup. Estimated differences above expectation were largest for racially minoritized individuals (≈2.0%), unmarried individuals (1.79%), individuals younger than 35 years (≈2.0%), Medicaid beneficiaries (2.41%), and those without college degrees (high school diploma, 2.36%; some college, 1.58%), particularly in southern states. Differences in race and ethnicity and education across states explain most of the variability in the state-level association between abortion bans and fertility rates.</p><p><strong>Conclusion and relevance: </strong>These findings provide evidence that fertility rates in states with abortion bans were higher than would have been expected in the absence of these policies, with the largest estimated differences among subpopulations experiencing the greatest structural disadvantages and in states with among the worst maternal and child health and well-being outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11826436/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel D Emmerich, Cheryl D Fryar, Bryan Stierman, Qiuping Gu, Joseph Afful, Cynthia L Ogden
{"title":"Trends in Obesity-Related Measures Among US Children, Adolescents, and Adults.","authors":"Samuel D Emmerich, Cheryl D Fryar, Bryan Stierman, Qiuping Gu, Joseph Afful, Cynthia L Ogden","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.27676","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jama.2024.27676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11826431/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When You Drew the Graph.","authors":"Zachary A Hing","doi":"10.1001/jama.2024.22889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.22889","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abortion May Be Controversial-Supporting Children and Families Need Not Be.","authors":"Alyssa Bilinski","doi":"10.1001/jama.2025.0854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.0854","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17196,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}