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Finding
decline
African-American thyroid cancer survivors had a 17% risk of low birth weight in the first pregnancy conceived after diagnosis, compared with 5% in white survivors, but this largely reflected higher baseline risks in African-American women rather than a larger cancer-attributable effect.
| Comparator | White thyroid cancer survivors, and matched women without cancer of each race |
| Effect summary | decline |
| Effect modifiers | [{"modifier": "Race (African-American vs white)", "interaction_p": "Interaction contrasts comparing risk differences in white and African-American women after thyroid cancer were similarly null", "direction": "null", "stratum_details": "African-American survivors: 17% LBW (95% CI: 11%, 24%); White survivors: 5% LBW (95% CI: 4%, 7%). But interaction contrast was null \u2014 the higher absolute rate in African-American women reflected higher baseline risk, not a larger cancer effect.", "plain_language": "African-American women had higher absolute risks, but the additional risk from thyroid cancer was the same for both races.", "annotation_notes": ""}] |
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PMC5766343
The risk of preterm birth and growth restriction in pregnancy after cancer