@SMcketta

MD/PhD, social epidemiologist, kind hearted lady

Joined August 2019
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📣 Our team's latest pub alert in @JournalCancer on cancer inequities impacting LGBTQ communities 🌈 🧵1/5 Article 👇acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… #CancerPrevention #HealthEquity #QueerEpi #LGBTQHealth
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JAMA
@JAMA_current26 Apr 2024
Sarah McKetta @SMcketta discusses her recent JAMA research on health disparities for lesbian, gay, and bisexual women, including worse physical, mental, and behavioral health than heterosexual women. ja.ma/49UIrbN
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@JAMA_current25 Apr 2024
In an otherwise largely homogeneous sample of female nurses, participants identifying as lesbian or bisexual had markedly earlier mortality during the study period compared with heterosexual women. ja.ma/3JxLZ99
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A new study led by @DeptPopMed w/@HarvardChanSPH, @UofUsociology, @BostonChildrens, & @ColumbiaNursing collaborators found premature death higher among sexual minority women than their heterosexual peers. Findings are online now in @JAMA_current: buff.ly/3UvUx6E 1/10
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Binge drinking is bad for health, and identifying populations at risk remains an urgent public health priority! Read the whole thing here: doi.org/10.1111/acer.15333 (doi.org/10.1111/acer.15333) (3/3)

Trends in binge drinking in the United States by LGBTQ+ identity, gender, and age, 2014–2022

To understand how recent trends in binge drinking vary for cisgender, heterosexual people compared to LGBTQ+ people, we used national datasets to examine changes in binge drinking from 2014-2022. We...

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We found that LGBTQ+ disparities in midlife women’s binge drinking have attenuated in recent years - because cisgender, heterosexual women are drinking MORE (2/3)
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Proud to report our newest study, “Trends in binge drinking in the United States by LGBTQ+ identity, gender, and age, 2014–2022” by me, @epi_kerrykeyes , @justinOjager was just published in @ACERjournal  (1/3)
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Payal Chakraborty@_payalc1 Apr 2024
Our team’s article, “Sexual orientation disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes” by @_payalc, @ColleenAmandaR, @ObedinMaliver, @sbrynaustin, @SHaneuse, @britshmit, @Smcketta & Schroeder, & Everett, was just published by @AJOG_thegray! doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2024.… (1/5)
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*NEW STUDY RESULTS* on perinatal mental health disparities among LGBTQ+ women led by the fabulous @Smcketta & myself w/ @CoRAL_DPM @HarvardChanSPH research team @britshmit @_payalc @ColleenAmandaR @sbrynaustin @siwenwangMD @SHaneuse H. Eliassen J. Chavarro #AcademicTwitter
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Perinatal depression can be extremely dangerous, and our study highlights the dire consequences of restrictive abortion legislation for women and families (4/4)
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We found that more hostile abortion climates led to higher risks that pregnancies were unintended, which increased risks of depression and stress during pregnancy (3/4)
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In this study, we examined whether living in a state with a hostile abortion climate impacted perinatal mental health among pregnant women (2/4)
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Our study, “Restrictive abortion legislation and adverse mental health during pregnancy and postpartum” by @Smcketta, @_payalc, @kodiaksoled, @taborhoatson, @arielbeccia, @ColleenAmandaR, @britshmit, Gimbrone, Huang is now published in @AnnalsofEpi doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.… (1/4)
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