The association between state-level negative racial sentiment and maternal hypertension in the US from 2016 to 2021: An observational study using Twitter data
Laura B Drew, Junaid Merchant, Marie E Thoma, Heran Mane, Xiaohe Yue, Thu T Nguyen · 2026
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Laura Drew and colleagues ask whether racist attitudes in a state track with high blood pressure in pregnancy, in this 2026 PLOS ONE study. They paired United States birth certificate records from 2016 to 2021, covering more than twenty-two million single births, with a sample of tweets scored for negative feeling toward racial and ethnic minorities.
People living in states with the most hostile scores had clearly higher rates of blood pressure problems both before and during pregnancy. The authors also compared the years before 2020 with the pandemic and protest years that followed. The work adds area-level attitudes to the list of forces that may shape unequal birth outcomes.
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| CREATOR | Laura B Drew, Junaid Merchant, Marie E Thoma, Heran Mane, Xiaohe Yue, Thu T Nguyen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40748 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |