Stillbirths in the United States

Haley K Sullivan; Anna D Sinaiko; Kathe Fox; Joanne C Armstrong; Mark A Clapp; Jessica L Cohen

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.17392

Stillbirths in the United States

JAMA. 2025 Dec 9;334(22):2033-2035. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.17392.

Authors

Haley K Sullivan¹, Anna D Sinaiko², Kathe Fox³, Joanne C Armstrong⁴, Mark A Clapp^{5

6}, Jessica L Cohen²

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
² Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Health Care Cost Institute, Washington, DC.
⁴ Women's Health and Genomics, CVS Health, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁶ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 41143832
PMCID: PMC12560027 (available on 2026-04-27)
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.17392

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Plain language summary

This study characterizes stillbirth rates in 2016-2022 across clinical risk factors and geographic-based measures of access, income, and race in a large US commercially insured population.