Peterman Nicholas, Kaptur Bradley, Lewis Morgan, Ades Lindsey, Carpenter Kristine
Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, Champaign, USA.
Carle Foundation Hospital, IL, Urbana, USA.
Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol. 2022 Apr 29;8(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s40748-022-00137-x.
Prematurity and low birth weight are of concern in neonatal health. In this work, geospatial analysis was performed to identify the existence of statistically significant clusters of prematurity and low birth weight using Moran's I. Data was obtained from March of Dimes and the National Center for Health Statistics for the years 2015 to 2019. Analysis demonstrated the presence of hotspot (High-High) and coldspot (Low-Low) geographic clusters of these variables in regions across the United States. Additionally, factorial ANOVA was performed, and revealed the significance of demographic variables of interest. Given the strong relationship between these two variables, regions that are hotspots for one variable, but not the other, are of particular interest for further study.
早产和低出生体重是新生儿健康领域令人关注的问题。在这项研究中，我们进行了地理空间分析，以使用莫兰指数（Moran's I）来确定早产和低出生体重在统计学上显著的聚集情况。数据来自美国疾病控制与预防中心（March of Dimes）和国家卫生统计中心，时间跨度为2015年至2019年。分析表明，在美国各地的区域中存在这些变量的热点（高高）和冷点（低低）地理聚集。此外，我们还进行了因子方差分析，揭示了相关人口统计学变量的显著性。鉴于这两个变量之间的紧密关系，对于进一步研究来说，那些是一个变量的热点但不是另一个变量热点的区域尤其值得关注。
