Abstract
Objective
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program addresses gaps in
biomedical research by collecting health data from diverse populations. Pregnant
individuals have historically been underrepresented in biomedical research, and
pregnancy-related research is often limited by data availability, sample size, and
inadequate representation of the diversity of pregnant people. We aimed to identify
pregnancy episodes with high-quality electronic health record (EHR) data in All of Us
Research Program data and evaluate the program’s utility for pregnancy-related research.
Materials and methods
We used an algorithm to identify pregnancy episodes in All of Us EHR data. We
described these pregnancies, validated them with additional data, and compared them to
national statistics.
Results
Our study identified 18,970 pregnancy episodes from 14,234 participants; other
possible pregnancy episodes had low-quality or insufficient data. Validation against
people who reported a current pregnancy on an All of Us survey found low false positive
and negative rates. Demographics were similar in some respects to national data;
however, Asian-Americans were underrepresented, and older, highly educated pregnant
people were overrepresented.
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Discussion
Our approach demonstrates the capacity of All of Us to support pregnancy research
and reveals the diversity of the pregnancy cohort. However, we noted an
underrepresentation among some demographics. Other limitations include measurement
error in gestational age and limited data on non-live births.
Conclusion
The wide variety of data in the All of Us program, encompassing EHR, survey, genomic,
and Fitbit data, offers a valuable resource for studying pregnancy, yet care must be taken
to avoid biases.
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Introduction
Despite the critical role of pregnancy in human health and development, it remains an
understudied area in biomedical research. The complexities and ethical considerations of
studying the pregnant population have led to the widespread exclusion of pregnant people
from clinical trials and efficacy studies, making observational data necessary to study the
impacts of various exposures, as well as to gain insights into the broader spectrum of
pregnancy-related health conditions, behaviors, and outcomes. Nevertheless, research
into pregnancy and the postpartum period remains challenging due to data and study
design limitations.
Historically, studies about pregnancy and postpartum health outcomes have relied on
costly cohort studies or surveillance mechanisms that do not capture the entire pregnancy
period. For example, state and national governments provide representative but cross-
sectional birth surveillance data that also fails to capture early outcomes or sufficient data
on pregnancy exposures such as medications.1,2 Birth cohorts, observational studies that
recruit pregnant or recently postpartum people and their infants, often recruit participants
in the later stages of pregnancy, missing the earliest pregnancy exposures and outcomes
such as miscarriages.3–5 More recently, preconception cohort studies have been designed
to prospectively collect data on fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum health outcomes.6–9
While cohort studies are rich in longitudinal data, they are also inherently resource-
intensive and often rely primarily on self-report of pregnancy timing and outcomes. Real-
world data, including electronic health records (EHR) and insurance claims, contain
thorough information about diagnoses, medications, and healthcare procedures and their
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costs. While the longitudinal nature of the data, coupled with very large sample sizes, is
promising for studying key biomedical outcomes, these datasets usually lack important
demographic information.10 Additionally, identifying pregnancies and measuring
gestational age in these complicated records is challenging.
The All of Us Research Program provides an opportunity for pregnancy-related
research that overcomes some of the limitations of other data sources. The program
collects information through EHR and survey data, as well as biospecimens and data from
activity trackers, allowing for longitudinal studies examining both social and biomedical
exposures and outcomes. Conducting pregnancy-related research using All of Us
Research Program data aligns well with the program’s mission, which is to fully represent
the diversity of the US population by explicitly including groups historically
underrepresented in biomedical research.11 Pregnant people, and in particular pregnant
people of color and sexual and gender minorities,12–14 make up an important and
understudied segment of this population.
While this research program provides an opportunity to ask new research questions
about pregnancy, challenges to identifying and characterizing pregnancies in real-world
data remain. Identifying pregnancy episodes in the All of Us EHR data can be difficult due
to variations in coding practices, patients visiting multiple healthcare providers over the
course of a pregnancy, and infrequent use of codes that identify gestational age. These
challenges mean that researchers can’t rely on a single code to identify pregnancy, and
complex algorithms are needed to identify pregnancies, ascertain their outcomes, and
estimate gestational ages.15
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Objective
This work aimed to identify pregnancy episodes in the All of Us population. Objectives
included inferring gestational age and pregnancy outcomes, validating episodes using
survey data, and characterizing the identified pregnancies. We aimed to establish how the
All of Us Research Program could be used to answer pregnancy-related research
questions important to researchers and the communities they serve.
Methods
Data
The All of Us Research Program began enrolling adult participants across the country
in 2018.11 Focused recruitment occurs at an extensive network of sites nationwide; the
study is also open to any volunteer. Participants must complete a baseline survey with
demographic information; additional surveys collect data on health history, social context,
and more. Volunteers may also link EHR data and contribute biospecimens for genomic
analyses; movement, heart rate, and sleep data through their Fitbit device; clinic-based
body measurements, and more. Due to the geographic diversity of the participants, EHR
data is contributed by a large number of institutions with different medical record systems.
The transformation of the data into the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership
common data model (OMOP CDM)16,17 allows the EHR data to be combined and analyzed
across participants on a web-based platform. After applying quality control and privacy-
preserving measures, data is released to researchers who complete the required training
and data use agreement. This study used data from the All of Us Research Program’s
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Controlled Tier Dataset Version 7 (release C2022Q4R9), available to authorized users on
the Researcher Workbench. The project followed the guidelines for ethical conduct of
research put in place by All of Us and was determined to be exempt by the Northeastern
IRB.
Pregnancy identification algorithm
We identified pregnancy episodes among All of Us participants contributing EHR data
using an algorithm developed and validated in the National Covid Cohort Collaborative
data.15 This approach, Hierarchy and rule-based pregnancy episode Inference integrated
with Pregnancy Progression Signatures [HIPPS], consists of three sub-algorithms:
Hierarchy-based Inference of Pregnancy (HIP), Pregnancy Progression Signature (PPS), and
Estimated Start Date (ESD). These are described here briefly; a complete description is
available in the original publication.15
The HIP algorithm defines pregnancy episodes based on how a pregnancy ended: live
birth, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous or induced abortion, and delivery
(delivery-only codes are non-specific to the outcome of the pregnancy). First, OMOP
concept codes related to these outcomes are identified and then deduplicated within
patients based on minimum plausible pregnancy durations (e.g., 182 days between
delivery outcomes and 56 days between consecutive ectopic pregnancies). These
outcome-based episodes are combined with overlapping gestation-based episodes, which
are defined by the timing of a participant’s minimum and maximum gestational-age-
related codes (e.g., “Gestation period, 36 weeks”).
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The PPS algorithm relies on a different but overlapping set of initial pregnancy-related
codes. (We used the codes identified by Jones et al.15 rather than identifying codes specific
to All of Us, due to the similarity of the data sources.) Along with codes for individual
gestational weeks, PPS uses codes specific to a broader gestational age range (e.g.,
glucose tolerance tests most often occur within 6 and 8 months of gestation). The
algorithm identifies episodes with plausible progressions of these timing-specific
concepts. Next, pregnancy outcome codes that overlap with the expected timing relative
to the gestational age codes are used to assign outcomes to the episodes.
The HIP-identified and PPS-identified episodes are then merged based on overlapping
timing. The ESD algorithm uses the gestational age codes to assign an inferred pregnancy
start date and a date the pregnancy outcome occurred, along with the corresponding
gestational age. Both week-specific and gestational-age range codes are used to identify
and remove outlying timing codes; the inferred start and end dates are based on the latest
and most specific codes.
As in Jones et al.,15 we classified the pregnancy episodes based on whether the
pregnancy outcomes from both the HIP and PPS algorithms matched, the dates of those
outcomes were within 14 days of each other, and whether the estimated gestational age at
the end of pregnancy was plausible. We assigned episodes a concordance score of 2 if all
three criteria were met, a 1 if the outcome didn’t match, and a 0 otherwise. We also
classified episodes based on how specific the gestational age concepts were: “non-
specific” if there were no gestational age-related codes or if the timing could not be
narrowed down below a three-month window, “1-3 months” or “1-3 weeks” if gestational
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age could be narrowed to one of those windows, and “1 week (poor support)” if there was
only a single gestational week concept within a pregnancy episode.
We translated the original code for the algorithm from PySpark SQL to work in R on the
Researcher Workbench, where we primarily used dbplyr18 and the allofus R package.19 All
of our analysis code is available on Github (https://github.com/louisahsmith/allofus-
pregnancy).
Validation
We validated the pregnancy episodes in two ways: with survey data and with
pregnancy-related codes that were not used in the HIPPS algorithm. First, we identified All
of Us participants who responded to the Overall Health survey, contributed EHR data, were
aged 15-55, and didn’t report male sex at birth. We compared those participants’
responses to the question “Are you currently pregnant?” and the identified pregnancy
episodes to assess misclassification. We considered a false positive pregnancy episode to
be one in which a participant reported not being pregnant on a date they were identified as
greater than 12 weeks pregnant by the algorithm, and a missed episode (false negative) to
occur when someone reported being pregnant at a time not overlapping with an identified
pregnancy episode (Figure 1). Second, we quantified occurrences of 25 pregnancy-related
codes not used in identifying the pregnancies among all participants and compared their
frequency during the expected pregnancy timing to the overall population frequency.
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Figure 1. Schematic describing the validation study using survey data and scenarios resulting in errors. The participants
represented in a) and b) reported being pregnant during, or within two weeks of, an assigned pregnancy episode,
representing true positives. Participant c) reported not being pregnant during a time they were not assigned a pregnancy
episode, representing a true negative. Participant d) answered the survey before 12 weeks of an assigned pregnancy
episode, meaning we didn’t know whether they would have known they were pregnant at the time (these situations were
excluded from the validation). Participant e) represents a situation in which the identified pregnancy episode is
misaligned with the truth, resulting in a false negative. The setting of participant f) was an apparently more common form
of misalignment, in which the assigned pregnancy episode presumably was delayed relative to the truth, representing a
false positive. The situation in g) was also a common error, in which there was no or very little EHR data available around
the time of a positive response to the survey question (i.e., a false negative for the algorithm), suggesting that the data
containing pregnancy information was not included in the All of Us database. Participant h) has a false positive identified
pregnancy episode not closely linked in time with any true pregnancies, a situation that occurred when pregnancy-related
codes were apparently carried forward for years after their first occurrence.
Characteristics of pregnancies and pregnant All of Us participants
We characterized the pregnancy episodes by their outcomes, gestational lengths, year
of pregnancy, and demographic characteristics of the pregnant people. We fit exploratory
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log-linear regression models to describe characteristics associated with a higher
probability of having multiple pregnancy episodes, having a live birth vs. another pregnancy
outcome, and delivering preterm (among live births). We also characterized the extent to
which pregnant participants contributed additional types of data to All of Us, including
survey, Fitbit, and genomic data.
We used public vital statistics data to compare the demographics of All of Us
pregnancies ending in live births to national statistics.20 Specifically, we computed age,
education, racial/ethnic, and state breakdowns of US live births from 2016-2022 and
standardized those to the distribution of pregnancies by calendar year in All of Us.
Results
Pregnancy episodes
There were 134,566 individuals in the Controlled Tier C2022Q4R9 release of All of Us
(participant data cutoff date of 7/1/2022) who did not report male sex at birth and who had
contributed EHR data at some point between the ages of 15 and 55. Duration of
retrospective EHR data varies by participant and contributing data site; we used data from
as early as 1979. Overall, we identified 59,646 pregnancy episodes among 31,726 unique
All of Us participants. Of these episodes 30,177 were identified by both the HIP and PPS
algorithms, and 31,518 occurred since 2016. Concordance differed over time, with earlier
pregnancies less likely to be identified by both algorithms or result in matching outcomes
and dates (Figure 2). Among pregnancies since 2016 identified by both algorithms (n =
18,970), concordance was high, with 83.4% (n = 15,822) fully concordant and an additional
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9.6% (n = 1,815) with concordant dates and plausible gestational age but mismatched
outcomes (e.g., live birth vs. delivery). Due to the unreliability of early EHR data, we focus
our main results on the pregnancy episodes occurring 2016-2022 that were identified by
both algorithms (“high-quality episodes”) except when otherwise specified.
Figure 2. Concordance between pregnancy identification algorithms by date across all pregnancies. Fully concordant
pregnancies have matching HIP and PPS outcomes, similar end dates (within 14 days), and a plausible gestational age.
Somewhat and not concordant episodes differed on outcome category or timing. Additional episodes were identified by
only one of the two algorithms. We included episodes starting after 2016 (dashed line) that were identified by both
algorithms in our main analysis.
The majority of the high-quality pregnancy episodes ended in live birth (n = 11,379;
60.0%); 26.7% (n = 5,053) were missing an outcome (Figure 3). Gestational age was
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assigned to a specific week for 77.9% (n = 14,785) of pregnancy episodes; just 3.8% (n =
727) had non-specific gestational duration information (Supplementary Table 1).
Figure 3. Distribution of pregnancy outcomes among all identified pregnancies (left panel) and the high-quality episodes
(right panel). Episodes are stratified by the precision of the gestational age information used to assign pregnancy timing.
Week-level pregnancy episodes were able to be dated to within less than a month; those with poor support only had a
single week-specific code. Month-level episodes were dated to within 1-3 months, and non-specific episodes were less
precise. In addition, shaded portions of the bars represent the highly concordant episodes, on which both HIP and PPS
algorithms agreed on outcome and timing, and light-colored portions represent partial or non-concordance.
Validation
There were few false positives and false negatives as determined by the self-reported
pregnancy status survey question. There were 63,419 All of Us participants who answered
“yes” (n = 4,680) or “no” (n = 58,739) to the pregnancy question on the “Overall Health”
survey whose potential pregnancies we could capture in EHR data. Of those reporting
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current pregnancy, 3,832 (sensitivity = 81.8%) had an identified pregnancy episode within 2
weeks of the survey date. Compared to the 848 survey respondents reporting a pregnancy
we didn’t identify as overlapping, those we captured had more EHR data both overall
(mean 90.1 codes vs. 35.9 codes) and specific to pregnancy (mean 12.0 codes vs. 2.3
codes of those used in HIP algorithm). In addition, more of their EHR codes occurred post-
survey (mean time post-survey 62 days vs. -7 days), suggesting that their pregnancies were
not identified because EHR data containing their pregnancy outcomes had not (yet) been
added to the All of Us dataset (Supplementary Table 2).
Specificity was over 99%, with 518 respondents reporting no pregnancy despite our
algorithm identifying them as more than 12 weeks pregnant. Of these, the median time
from the survey date to the identified pregnancy end date was 14 days (interquartile range
0, 19.8 days), suggesting that these participants took the survey soon after pregnancy, but
the dates related to the pregnancy outcome codes in their EHR data were delayed. The
positive predictive value was 83.1%, and the negative predictive value was 98.5%.
Overlap of the 25 clinician-curated concepts not used in the HIPPS algorithm to
identify pregnancies varied, in part because we only considered the high-quality episodes
to be matches. Overall, 63.8% of occurrences were during an identified episode at an
appropriate gestational age, though some overlapped substantially less (e.g., 28.1% of
occurrences of genetic counseling services; Supplementary Table 3).
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All of Us participant characteristics
Of the 14,234 All of Us participants with at least one high-quality pregnancy episode,
most were Hispanic or Latino (43.2%) or non-Hispanic White (33.6%) (Table 1). Pregnant
people represented 41 US states and territories, but over half had fewer than 10
participants; over two-thirds were from just four states: Arizona, New York, California, and
Massachusetts. The vast majority reported being women (99.4%) and heterosexual
(91.8%).
People with incomes greater than $100,000 per year were more likely than any other
income bracket to have more than one pregnancy episode captured, as were those who
were married/partnered or divorced/separated/widowed compared to never married
(Supplementary Table 4). There was a steep decline with age in the probability that a
pregnancy episode ended in a live birth, with risk ratios of 0.93 (95 % CI 0.87, 1.00) at 35-34
years and 0.63 (95 % CI 0.41, 0.91) at 45-49 years compared to 25-29 years
(Supplementary Table 5). Black participants were more likely than other race/ethnic
groups to have preterm deliveries, as were older compared to younger participants
(Supplementary Table 6).
Almost all participants with high-quality pregnancy episodes completed the Lifestyle
and Overall Health surveys along with the required Basics survey (Table 2). In addition,
36.1% completed the Personal and Family Medical survey, 35.3% the Healthcare Access
survey, and 14.5% the Social Determinants of Health survey. Few have contributed Fitbit
data during their pregnancy (n = 211 with activity data; n = 176 with heart rate data; n = 195
with sleep data), but 88.9% have some genomic data available. Most pregnancy episodes
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(49.2%) occurred before joining All of Us, but a substantial number joined during
pregnancy (24.4%) or had prospective pregnancy episodes (26.2%).
Live births
Among live births, the median gestational age was 39.0 (interquartile range 37.1, 39.0),
and 20.5% were inferred to have delivered before 37 weeks gestation (i.e., preterm).
Compared to vital statistics data from the same years (Table 1), live births in All of Us were
to slightly older (21.1% vs. 18.7% 35 years or greater) and more educated (14.5% vs. 12.6%
with a graduate degree) individuals. Similar proportions of births were to Black, Native
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or individuals with more than one race. However, compared to
national data, All of Us had a smaller proportion of Asian (3.3% vs. 6.4%) and non-Hispanic
White (30.9% vs 52.7%), and more Hispanic or Latino (49.0% vs. 23.7%) mothers. Vital
statistics do not capture Middle Eastern/North African ethnicity, but 95 All of Us
participants reporting that ethnicity had high-quality pregnancy episodes (Table 1).
Discussion
In this study, we used All of Us EHR data to identify pregnancy episodes and estimate
gestational age. In doing so, we validated an algorithm recently developed for use in OMOP
CDM data and demonstrated the capability of the All of Us data to support pregnancy
research with a diverse cohort of pregnant people.
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Promise and potential of All of Us multi-source data
Maternal morbidity and mortality are of utmost concern in the US, with rising risks and
severe disparities in outcomes by race and ethnicity.21,22 The ability to link health outcome
data from medical records to survey questions about health behaviors, medical history,
and lifestyle and social factors can provide new insights into experiences during pregnancy
and in the postpartum period. In particular, the survey data collected by All of Us provides
in-depth information about social determinants of health that may help explain disparities
in maternal health and, most importantly, identify interventions. The over 4000 people who
apparently completed All of Us surveys while pregnant make for a significant cohort that
can be followed through the postpartum period, allowing researchers to ask questions
about relationships between social factors such as social support and experiences of
discrimination in pregnancy and postpartum health and well-being.
Other sources of data, including genomic and activity device data, provide additional
opportunities to answer critical pregnancy-related questions. For example, the causes of
preterm delivery appear to be numerous but are poorly understood;23,24 linking the inferred
gestational ages of the All of Us pregnancies with these sources of big data might produce
new insights. Future data types on the All of Us data roadmap25 include self-reported
height and weight, activity tracker data from Apple’s popular platform, and data from a
nutrition substudy, all of which could provide more data to study predictors and outcomes
associated with weight and nutrition during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum.
Activity tracker data shows promise not only for research on physiologic changes
during pregnancy but also for inclusion in an improved pregnancy identification algorithm.
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Epstein and McCoy used EHR and Fitbit data in 89 All of Us participants to observe the
change in heart rate for pregnant people and found a peak in heart rate during the first and
third trimesters and a steady increase through the second trimester.26 Other research also
showed that integrating EHR with wearable data can be used in predictive models for
hospital readmission.27 Given potential variations in daily exercise, heart rate, and sleep
duration, integrating data from wearable devices could augment the algorithm's
effectiveness.
Strengths and limitations of EHR pregnancy data
Real-world data like the EHR data used in this study offers valuable insights into
pregnancies and health-related characteristics of pregnant people. Additionally, it spans
many years of patient health records, enabling a comprehensive understanding of medical
history, including pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy phases, and providing a holistic view
of participant health. Furthermore, compared to clinical trial data, which generally has
stringent inclusion/exclusion criteria, EHR data like that in All of Us better represent real-
world populations, including underrepresented groups, fostering a more inclusive, reliable,
and comprehensive approach to research.28
However, EHR data comes with its own limitations. Firstly, coding errors lead to
incomplete or inaccurate documentation of patient records. Certain medical conditions
may not be fully captured or explained by these codes, leaving important information
conveyed through free text, which is not included in All of Us data. Secondly, patients often
receive care from multiple healthcare systems, resulting in fragmented records that result
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in missing information. For instance, a patient receiving prenatal care at one hospital may
need emergency labor services at a different hospital within another health system.
Indeed, over one-quarter of the otherwise high-quality pregnancy episodes we identified
were missing an outcome, though in some cases this was likely due to pregnancies that
continued past the data cut-off point.
In our survey-based validation substudy that included people who joined All of Us
while pregnant, we estimated sensitivity exceeding 80% and specificity approaching 100%,
affirming the Jones et al approach for reliably identifying pregnancy episodes. Other
studies have also reported high agreement rates and positive predictive values in line with
our study, from 70% to close to 100%.15,29–33 However, we could not specifically validate
gestational age at the outcome, which may be less accurately identified than the outcome
itself, particularly for non-live birth outcomes.34 In addition, our approach to validation
over-represented EHR information occurring around the time participants joined All of Us
and took the surveys, when their healthcare is more likely to be occurring within systems
that contribute data to All of Us, leading to an overestimate of the likely sensitivity of the
algorithm over the entire scope of the data.
As with other pregnancy algorithms, HIPPS leverages medical codes that represent
key factors such as prenatal care procedures, gestational age, and a range of pregnancy
outcomes. The algorithm was developed for data that has been translated to the OMOP
CDM, which is made up of a common vocabulary of concept codes representing other
code sets, including ICD-9, ICD-10, and CPT codes. This makes the algorithm highly
transferable to different settings and across time. Indeed, we identified pregnancies as
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early as the 1980s despite changes in medical coding since then. However, the early
episodes were of notably lower quality based on concordance between algorithms and
estimated gestational age, reflecting improvements in electronic health record keeping
and the usage of gestational age-specific ICD-10 codes.35,36
Recommendations and future directions
Properly accounting for timing is critical in pregnancy-related research and will be
even more so in All of Us studies, as different data components are contributed at different
times relative to a given pregnancy. Half of the pregnancies we identified occurred before a
participant joined All of Us, limiting the sample size for research questions in which
exposures of interest and covariates are drawn from survey questions. Researchers should
be careful not to make analyses conditional on joining All of Us post-pregnancy; for
example, pre-All of Us pregnancies are guaranteed not to have resulted in maternal
mortality. Nonetheless, some of the survey responses (e.g., race/ethnicity) can be
combined with EHR regardless of timing, as can genetic data. As All of Us grows, we can
expect more prospective pregnancies to occur.
While All of Us aims to be inclusive, it is not necessarily representative. We found that
in several respects, demographic data on pregnancies in All of Us did not match that from
vital statistics. While not inherently a problem, researchers should consider selection as a
source of bias in their studies, thinking carefully about who is joining All of Us and
contributing each type of data. A lack of geographic diversity due to intense recruitment at
some All of Us sites suggests that a lack of diversity is likely in other, unmeasured
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respects. In future work, we will consider how to address possible biases due to selection
and missing data and improve the generalizability of the data.
Although the algorithm we used was not perfectly accurate even according to our
limited validation exercises, the use of an algorithm like this one represents an
improvement compared to a simple code search for pregnancy or delivery-related codes.
While live birth is a relatively straightforward outcome to recognize, other outcomes, such
as ectopic pregnancy, require more supporting information before a single code should be
considered indicative of an event.37 In informal reviews of some participants’ medical
histories, we found the same code referring to ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage repeated
for years with no other indication of pregnancy, suggesting that in some cases these codes
are carried forward in the problem list without representing new events. Future research on
pregnancies that do not end in live birth will involve more thorough review to assess the
accuracy of the algorithm for these outcomes. Furthermore, we followed Jones et al.15 in
not attempting to distinguish spontaneous from induced abortion, which brings additional
challenges.
Conclusion
This pregnancy algorithm can be used by the community of researchers working on All
of Us to identify pregnancy episodes and ask novel questions about experiences
longitudinally with fertility, pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum and long-term health of
pregnant people.
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Table 1. Demographic characteristics of All of Us participants with high-quality pregnancy episodes and of live births,
compared to vital statistics. Live births may represent multiple pregnancies from the same participant. Vital statistics
data have been standardized to the distribution of delivery years in the All of Us data.
Individuals Live births Vital statistics
n = 14,234 n = 11,379
Gender identity
Woman 14,015 (99.4%) 11,233 (99.5%)
Man 28 (0.2%) --
Other/multiple 52 (0.4%) --
Unknown 139 93
Sexual orientation
Straight 12,792 (89.9%) 10,451 (91.8%)
Bisexual 833 (5.9%) 542 (4.8%)
Gay/lesbian 89 (0.6%) 48 (0.4%)
None 195 (1.4%) 122 (1.1%)
No answer 325 (2.3%) 216 (1.9%)
Race/ethnicity
Asian 464 (3.3%) 369 (3.3%) (6.38%)
Black or African-American 2,244 (16.0%) 1,581 (14.1%) (14.7%)
Hispanic or Latino 6,043 (43.2%) 5,409 (48.3%) (23.7%)
Middle Eastern or North African 95 (0.7%) 80 (0.7%) --
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific
Islander
25 (0.2%) 24 (0.2%) (0.20%)
White 4,701 (33.6%) 3,413 (30.5%) (52.7%)
More than one race 304 (2.2%) 249 (2.2%) (2.21%)
Other 118 (0.8%) 83 (0.7%) --
Missing 240 171
Family income ($)
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Individuals Live births Vital statistics
n = 14,234 n = 11,379
100k 2,405 (24.2%) 1,747 (23.3%)
Missing 4,307 3,892
Education
Less than high school 1,566 (11.2%) 1,256 (11.2%) (11.8%)
High school graduate 7,512 (52.8%) 6,239 (54.8%) (53.3%)
College graduate 2,652 (19.0%) 2,035 (18.2%) (21.0%)
Advanced degree 2,212 (15.9%) 1,645 (14.7%) (12.6%)
Missing 292 204
State of residence
Arizona 3,430 (24.1%) 3,284 (28.9%) (2.03%)
New York 3,172 (22.3%) 2,875 (25.3%) (5.93%)
California 1,655 (11.6%) 1,512 (13.3%) (12.0%)
Massachusetts 1,294 (9.1%) 780 (6.9%) (1.86%)
Pennsylvania 1,150 (8.1%) 1,033 (9.1%) (3.62%)
Illinois 745 (5.2%) 522 (4.6%) (3.78%)
Wisconsin 656 (4.6%) 273 (2.4%) (1.68%)
Alabama 613 (4.3%) 494 (4.3%) (1.57%)
Michigan 584 (4.1%) 231 (2.0%) (2.90%)
Other 935 (6.6%) 375 (3.3%) (64.7%)
Maternal age
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Individuals Live births Vital statistics
n = 14,234 n = 11,379
15-19 years -- 381 (3.3%) (4.42%)
20-24 years -- 2,193 (19.3%) (18.6%)
25-29 years -- 3,196 (28.1%) (28.7%)
30-34 years -- 3,204 (28.2%) (29.5%)
35-39 years -- 1,907 (16.8%) (15.4%)
40-44 years -- 462 (4.1%) (3.15%)
45 years and over -- 36 (0.3%) (0.16%)
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Table 2. Additional All of Us data contributed by participants with identified high-quality pregnancy episodes.
All of Us participation relative to pregnancy episode
(n = 18,970 episodes)
After 9364 (49.4%)
Before 5079 (26.8%)
During 4459 (23.5%)
Unclear 68 (0.4%)
Fitbit device data during pregnancy episode
(n = 18,970 episodes)
Activity 211 (1.1%)
Sleep 195 (1.0%)
Heart Rate 176 (0.9%)
Genomic data
(n = 14,234 individuals)
Array data 12,650 (88.9%)
Whole genome variant data 10,259 (72.1%)
Long read whole genome variant 48 (0.3%)
Structural variant 506 (3.6%)
Survey data
(n = 14,234 individuals)
The Basics 14,234 (100%)
Lifestyle 14,230 (100%)
Overall Health 14,230 (100%)
Personal/Family Health History 5,139 (36.1%)
Healthcare Access and Utilization 5,021 (35.3%)
Social Determinants of Health 2,071 (14.5%)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge All of Us participants for their contributions, without whom this
and future pregnancy-related research would not be possible. We also thank the National
Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program for making available the data examined in
this study.
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
Supplementary Table 1. Precision of the high-quality identified pregnancy episodes with respect to gestational age.
Precision category n percent
week 10517 0.554
week (poor support) 2058 0.108
two-week 3185 0.168
three-week 1083 0.057
month 499 0.026
two-month 375 0.02
three-month 526 0.028
non-specific 727 0.038
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Supplementary Table 2. Comparison of EHR data among pregnancies that were identified and confirmed by a positive
survey response, compared to survey responses indicating pregnancy that were not linked to an identified episode.
Correctly
identified
N = 3,832
mean(sd)
Missed
N = 848
mean(sd)
p-value
Total EHR codes 90.1 (72.8) 35.9 (69.2) <0.001
Total HIP codes 12.0 (7.7) 2.3 (5.7) <0.001
Abortion codes 0.0 (0.2) 0.0 (0.2) 0.2
Delivery codes 2.1 (1.5) 0.4 (0.9) <0.001
Ectopic pregnancy codes 0.0 (0.3) 0.0 (0.3) 0.2
Live birth codes 1.4 (0.9) 0.2 (0.6) <0.001
Pregnancy-only codes 8.4 (6.3) 1.5 (4.4) 0.9
Mean days from survey (any code) 62 (65) -7 (85) <0.001
Mean days from survey (HIP code) 80 (67) 11 (99) <0.001
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Supplementary Table 3. Codes possibly related to pregnancy but not used in the pregnancy episode identification
algorithm. Counts of codes across the All of Us dataset (after 2016) are compared to counts falling within the appropriate
gestational timing of an identified pregnancy episode.
Concept Total Overlapping Percent
Breech presentation 2297 1444 0.6286461
Complication occurring during labor and delivery 7172 4088 0.5699944
Doppler velocimetry, fetal; umbilical artery 2882 1956 0.6786954
Excessive fetal growth affecting management of
mother
2107 1348 0.6397722
False labor 544 378 0.6948529
False labor before 37 completed weeks of
gestation
1718 1376 0.8009313
Fetal biophysical profile; with non-stress testing 3151 2384 0.7565852
Fetal biophysical profile; without non-stress
testing
13059 9998 0.7656023
Fetal non-stress test 13688 9543 0.6971800
Gestation less than 24 weeks 2043 1542 0.7547724
Gestational diabetes mellitus 11415 6909 0.6052562
Initial prenatal care visit (report at first prenatal
encounter with health care professional
providing obstetrical care. Report also date of
visit and, in a separate field, the date of the last
menstrual period [LMP]) (Prenatal)
1065 925 0.8685446
Low lying placenta 1026 821 0.8001949
Medical genetics and genetic counseling
services, each 30 minutes face-to-face with
patient/family
3231 909 0.2813370
Polyhydramnios 1534 1006 0.6558018
Poor fetal growth affecting management 4630 3260 0.7041037
Pregnancy-induced hypertension 3557 1910 0.5369694
Prenatal flow sheet documented in medical
record by first prenatal visit (documentation
includes at minimum blood pressure, weight,
urine protein, uterine size, fetal heart tones, and
estimated date of delivery). Report also: date of
visit and, in a separ
210 158 0.7523810
Preterm labor without delivery 1268 896 0.7066246
Reduced fetal movement 2206 1635 0.7411605
Requires diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis
vaccination
1979 260 0.1313795
Suspected fetal abnormality affecting
management of mother
6329 4767 0.7531996
Third trimester pregnancy 53789 32378 0.6019446
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Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with
image documentation, fetal and maternal
evaluation, after first trimester (> or = 14 weeks 0
days), transabdominal approach; single or first
gestation
6453 3983 0.6172323
Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with
image documentation, transvaginal
17651 11318 0.6412101
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Supplementary Table 4. Probability ratios and 95% confidence intervals from a log-linear regression for the probability of
multiple identified pregnancy episodes, among All of Us participants with at least one identified episode.
Characteristic Risk
Ratio
95% CI p-value
Race/ethnicity
White — —
Asian 1.03 0.83, 1.26 0.7
Black or African-American 1.23 1.08, 1.39 <0.001
Hispanic or Latino 1.07 0.97, 1.19 0.11
Middle Eastern or North African 0.68 0.36, 1.15 0.14
More than one race 1.13 0.88, 1.41 0.2
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 1.22 0.38, 2.86 0.6
Other 1.14 0.76, 1.62 0.4
Education
College graduate — —
Less than high school 1.01 0.84, 1.21 0.9
High school graduate 0.93 0.81, 1.08 0.3
Some college 0.90 0.79, 1.01 0.038
Advanced degree 1.15 1.02, 1.30 0.007
Family income
> 100k — —
< 10k 0.77 0.65, 0.91 <0.001
10-25k 0.77 0.65, 0.91 <0.001
25-50k 0.76 0.66, 0.88 <0.001
50-100k 0.79 0.70, 0.89 <0.001
Marital status
Married/partnered — —
Divorced/separated/widowed 0.85 0.70, 1.01 0.038
Never married 0.75 0.67, 0.84 <0.001
Age at first identified pregnancy episode
25-29 years — —
15-19 years 1.83 1.51, 2.20 <0.001
20-24 years 1.37 1.22, 1.53 <0.001
30-34 years 0.83 0.75, 0.92 <0.001
35-39 years 0.53 0.46, 0.61 <0.001
40-44 years 0.41 0.32, 0.53 <0.001
45-49 years 0.12 0.02, 0.37 0.002
50 years and over 0.54 0.13, 1.40 0.3
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Supplementary Table 5. Probability ratios and 95% confidence intervals from a log-linear regression for the probability of
having a live birth, among all identified pregnancy episodes.
Characteristic Risk
Ratio
95% CI p-value
Race/ethnicity
White — —
Asian 1.08 0.95, 1.22 0.065
Black or African-American 0.97 0.89, 1.05 0.2
Hispanic or Latino 1.13 1.06, 1.20 <0.001
Middle Eastern or North African 1.16 0.87, 1.51 0.084
More than one race 1.09 0.94, 1.26 0.058
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 1.18 0.65, 1.96 0.3
Other 0.93 0.72, 1.18 0.4
Education
College graduate — —
Less than high school 0.96 0.86, 1.07 0.3
High school graduate 1.04 0.96, 1.13 0.13
Some college 1.02 0.95, 1.10 0.4
Advanced degree 0.98 0.91, 1.06 0.5
Family income
> 100k — —
0.9
25-50k 1.07 0.98, 1.17 0.015
50-100k 1.06 0.98, 1.14 0.021
Marital status
Married/partnered — —
Divorced/separated/widowed 0.87 0.78, 0.96 <0.001
Never married 0.90 0.85, 0.96 <0.001
Age
25-29 years — —
15-19 years 0.99 0.84, 1.15 0.8
20-24 years 1.07 0.99, 1.15 0.005
30-34 years 1.0 0.93, 1.06 0.8
35-39 years 0.93 0.87, 1.00 0.005
40-44 years 0.83 0.73, 0.94 <0.001
45-49 years 0.63 0.41, 0.91 0.004
50 years and over 0.16 0.03, 0.48 0.006
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Supplementary Table 6. Probability ratios and 95% confidence intervals from a log-linear regression for the probability of
preterm delivery (according to inferred gestational age), among all identified live births.
Characteristic Risk
Ratio
95% CI p-value
Race/ethnicity
White — —
Asian 0.86 0.61, 1.18 0.3
Black or African-American 1.18 1.01, 1.39 0.021
Hispanic or Latino 0.96 0.84, 1.09 0.5
Middle Eastern or North African 0.68 0.27, 1.38 0.3
More than one race 0.97 0.69, 1.32 0.8
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0.77 0.13, 2.39 0.7
Other 0.89 0.49, 1.48 0.6
Education
College graduate — —
Less than high school 1.77 1.40, 2.22 <0.001
High school graduate 1.41 1.16, 1.71 <0.001
Some college 1.59 1.34, 1.90 100k — —
< 10k 1.68 1.33, 2.12 <0.001
10-25k 1.47 1.17, 1.86 <0.001
25-50k 1.55 1.26, 1.91 <0.001
50-100k 1.34 1.10, 1.62 0.001
Marital status
Married/partnered — —
Divorced/separated/widowed 1.26 1.03, 1.52 0.005
Never married 0.92 0.81, 1.06 0.2
Age
25-29 years — —
15-19 years 1.20 0.87, 1.61 0.2
20-24 years 0.95 0.81, 1.11 0.5
30-34 years 1.13 0.98, 1.30 0.066
35-39 years 1.42 1.21, 1.67 <0.001
40-44 years 1.38 1.05, 1.78 0.005
45-49 years 3.05 1.57, 5.32 <0.001
50 years and over 4.74 0.27, 21.2 0.018
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