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  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Reproductive Health

Background:

  • Causal mediation analysis decomposes total effects into direct and indirect pathways.
  • Recent advancements enable evaluation of multiple, causally ordered mediators.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate pathways linking placental abruption to perinatal mortality.
  • To quantify the roles of small for gestational age birth and preterm delivery as sequential mediators.

Main Methods:

  • Applied natural effect models for multiple sequential mediators.
  • Utilized causal mediation analysis to disentangle effects.
  • Analyzed data from 16.7 million singleton pregnancies.

Main Results:

  • Placental abruption showed a strong association with perinatal mortality (ARR = 11.9).
  • Small for gestational age birth mediated 2% of the effect.
  • Preterm delivery mediated 58% of the effect.
  • 41% of the effect was unmediated by these two factors.

Conclusions:

  • Causal mediation analysis with sequential mediators reveals pathways of abruption's impact on perinatal mortality.
  • Preterm delivery is a major mediator of abruption's effect on perinatal mortality.