التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Reconsidering the use of race adjustments in maternal serum screening. |
| المؤلفون: |
Pierre, Christina C., Greene, Dina N., Delaney, Shani, Lockwood, Christina M., Peck Palmer, Octavia M. |
| المصدر: |
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Nov2023, Vol. 229 Issue 5, p522-525, 4p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
RACE, MEDICAL screening, NEURAL tube defects, FETAL abnormalities, RACIAL differences |
| مستخلص: |
The use of race in maternal serum screening is problematic because race is a social construct rather than a distinct biological classifier. Nevertheless, laboratories offering this testing are encouraged to use race-specific cutoff values for maternal serum screening biomarkers to determine the risk of fetal abnormalities. Large cohort studies examining racial differences in maternal serum screening biomarker concentrations have yielded conflicting results, which we postulate may be explained by genetic and socioeconomic differences between racial cohorts in different studies. We recommend that the use of race in maternal serum screening should be abandoned. Further research is needed to identify socioeconomic and environmental factors that contribute to differences in maternal serum screening biomarker concentrations observed between races. A better understanding of these factors may facilitate accurate race-agnostic risk estimates for aneuploidy and neural tube defects. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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