Sarah McKetta

📣 Our team's latest pub alert in @JournalCancer on cancer inequities impacting LGBTQ communities 🌈 🧵1/5 Article 👇acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn… #CancerPrevention #HealthEquity #QueerEpi #LGBTQHealth

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

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

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

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.1… (doi.org/10.1111/acer.1…) (3/3)

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)

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)

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… (1/5)

*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

Perinatal depression can be extremely dangerous, and our study highlights the dire consequences of restrictive abortion legislation for women and families (4/4)

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)

In this study, we examined whether living in a state with a hostile abortion climate impacted perinatal mental health among pregnant women (2/4)

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.anne… (1/4)