Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology三本特刊征稿

• Design and methodological considerations;

• Casual inference approaches in life-course epidemiology;

• Use of sibling and family-based design to control for unmeasured confounding;

• Addressing time-varying confounding in studies of early-life exposures and later outcomes;

• Analytical approaches for predicting long-term outcomes based on neonatal conditions;

• Empirical associations;

• Neurodevelopmental and cognitive sequalae of adverse neonatal conditions;

• Physical and chronic health sequalae of adverse neonatal conditions;

• Epigenetic programming following adverse birth exposures;

• International comparisons of neonatal networks and harmonized registries: neonatal outcomes, long-term follow-up, and methodological pitfalls.

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• Registry-based studies on AMA and perinatal and/or child outcomes (e.g., stillbirth, fetal growth restriction, chromosomal anomalies, developmental delays);

• Novel study designs to control for strong confounding by high-education selection into older ages of childbearing;

• Revisiting evidence that informs clinical guidelines, interventions (e.g., induction, cesarean delivery), or counseling among AMA populations;

• Investigation of childbearing at early ages (i.e., teenage years), with careful consideration of factors by which persons select into teenage childbearing;

• Use of -omics, placental, or other biomarker data to separate biological from chronological aging;

• The social and biological implications of AMA;

• Consideration of parity as a mediator, effect modifier, or confounder;

• Comparative work on compositional changes in groups who are more recently delaying childbearing but who experience structural disadvantage (e.g., immigrant populations);

• Comparative analyses leveraging the full maternal age distribution to contextualize risks observed at both younger and older ages within the broader continuum;

• Methodological advances that may disentangle the relative contributions of AMA, advanced paternal age, and parity;

• Careful assessments of rates of aging across subgroups, and/or examination of AMA/outcome disparities;

• The role of assisted reproductive technology, and other proposed antecedents, on rising AMA across cohorts and/or over time.

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• Defining "unnecessary CD" in different health care contexts from clinical, and epidemiological perspectives (cross-country comparability); estimating rates and associated maternal characteristics (clinical and socioeconomic).

• Methodological challenges in defining and studying unnecessary CD using health administrative/registry data (measurement error, coding validity, confounding, causal inference).

• Maternal outcomes following unnecessary CD: short- and long-term physical, mental, reproductive, and obstetric sequelae.

• Offspring outcomes following unnecessary CD: short- and long-term neonatal, pediatric, developmental, and psychosocial outcomes.

• Interventions to reduce the rate of unnecessary CD such as adherence to evidence-based labor management protocols, continuous labour support, TOLAC promotion, benchmarking, midwifery-led care models, patient education-based interventions/decision-making tools, antenatal anxiety reduction interventions.

• Health-economic implications of unnecessary CD: costs, cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce overuse, budget impact, and equity considerations.

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