Aagaard KM

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus
2023
Environmental justice burden and Black-White disparities in spontaneous preterm birth in Harris County, Texas.
Frontiers in reproductive health ·doi:10.3389/frph.2023.1296590

IntroductionGiven limited evidence of previous studies, we evaluated the role of environmental justice (EJ) burden (i.e., a neighborhood characterized by both increased environmental burden and socioeconomic deprivation) in Black-White disp…

2022
The impact of response to iron therapy on maternal and neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with anemia.
American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM ·doi:10.1016/j.ajogmf.2022.100569

BackgroundAnemia during pregnancy is associated with increased risks of preterm birth, preeclampsia, cesarean delivery, and maternal morbidity. The most prevalent modifiable cause of pregnancy-associated anemia is iron deficiency. However, …

2021
Dysregulation in Sphingolipid Signaling Pathways is Associated With Symptoms and Functional Connectivity of Pain Processing Brain Regions in Provoked Vestibulodynia.
The journal of pain ·doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2021.04.017

Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a chronic pain disorder characterized by local hypersensitivity and severe pain with pressure localized to the vulvar vestibule. Despite decades of study, the lack of identified biomarkers has slowed the dev…

2012
Early origins of adult disease: approaches for investigating the programmable epigenome in humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents.
ILAR journal ·doi:10.1093/ilar.53.3-4.306

According to the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis, in utero experiences reprogram an individual for immediate adaptation to gestational perturbations, with the sequelae of later-in-life risk of metabolic disease. An al…