Diagnoses of diabetes were more common
among Black and Hispanic women than
among White women across NYS, putting
these 2 groups at higher risk of preeclampsia
Among hospitalizations with diagnoses of diabetes
in NYC, Hispanic women had a notably
higher rate of preeclampsia, followed by Black
women, then White women (Figure 1a). In
the rest of NYS, the differences in preeclampsia
rates among diabetics by race/ethnicity
were smaller (Figure 1b).
Application of a multivariate logistic regression
model similar to those previously reported21,24
showed that the model poorly fit
NYS data. Thus, we used stratified analyses for
calculation of rates and rate ratios of preeclampsia.
The relation between race/ethnicity and
preeclampsia occurred in diabetics as well as
non diabetics in NYC, although small numbers
limited interpretation