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Participants provided blood samples and completed clinic questionnaires, with clinical data collected from their post-delivery medical records. Telomere length was measured using monochrome multiplex quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Linear regression and multinomial logistic regression were used to analyze the association between telomere length and gestational length. Kruskal\u2013Wallis\u2019s test and Fisher\u2019s exact test were used to compare preterm birth, early-term birth and full-term birth by telomere length, social-demographic characteristics, stress and discrimination.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The rates of preterm birth was higher in pregnant women with shorter telomeres. After adjusting for confounders, for every 10-units increase in the relative telomere-to-single-copy gene (<jats:italic>T<\/jats:italic>\/<jats:italic>S<\/jats:italic>) ratio, gestational days increased by 1.090 days (90% CI 0.182, 1.997), and for every 10-units decrease in the <jats:italic>T<\/jats:italic>\/<jats:italic>S<\/jats:italic> ratio, the odds of preterm birth was 2.664 (90% CI 1.064, 6.673) times greater than the odds of full-term birth. No statistically significant associations were observed between stress, discrimination, and either preterm birth or telomere length.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Maternal peripheral blood telomere shortening is associated with preterm birth, providing support to further explore the clinical utility of maternal telomere testing for prediction and early intervention of preterm birth and the study of biological mechanisms of spontaneous preterm birth.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00404-024-07681-1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,14]],"date-time":"2024-08-14T11:02:24Z","timestamp":1723633344000},"page":"1591-1598","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Maternal peripheral blood telomere length and preterm birth in African American women: a pilot study"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"311","author":[{"given":"Weiyi","family":"Huang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brandie DePaoli","family":"Taylor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gabriel","family":"Neal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kelli","family":"Kochan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7223-412X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robin L.","family":"Page","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"7681_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Khandre V, Potdar J, Keerti A, Khandre Jr V (2022) Preterm birth: an overview Cureus 4","DOI":"10.7759\/cureus.33006"},{"key":"7681_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"79","DOI":"10.1080\/10796126.2016.1254601","volume":"23","author":"AR Markus","year":"2017","unstructured":"Markus AR, Krohe S, Garro N, Gerstein M, Pellegrini C (2017) Examining the association between Medicaid coverage and preterm births using 2010\u20132013 National Vital Statistics Birth Data. 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