Leveraging health records to identify diagnoses associated with recurrent pregnancy loss across two medical centers
Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), defined as 2 or more pregnancy losses, affects 5-6% of ever-pregnant individuals. Approximately half of these cases have no identifiable explanation. In this study, we aim to identify diagnoses associated with RPL and generate hypotheses about RPL etiology utilizing electronic health record (EHR) data. We implemented a case-control study comparing the history of over 1,600 diagnoses between RPL and live birth patients, leveraging the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford University EHR databases. In total, our study includes 8,496 RPL (UCSF: 3,840, Stanford: 4,656) and 53,278 control (UCSF: 17,259, Stanford: 36,019) patients. Menstrual abnormalities and infertility-associated diagnoses are significantly positively associated with RPL in both medical centers. Age-stratified analysis revealed that the majority of RPL-associated diagnoses have higher odds ratios for patients <35 years compared with 35+ years patients. While Stanford results are sensitive to control for healthcare utilization, UCSF results are stable across analyses with and without utilization.
Authors
- Jacquelyn Roger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1823-0421)
- J Costello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5959-155X)
- Ruth B. Lathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2159-2714)
- Aleksandar Rajkovic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8390-0263)
- Hakan Cakmak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8321-2222)
- Michael Snyder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-7987)
- Brian L. Le (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4062-094X)
- Linda C. Giudice (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1677-0822)
- Tomiko Oskotsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7393-5120)
- Nima Aghaeepour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6117-8764)
- Gary M. Shaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7438-4914)
- Jay Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1535-9887)
- Idit Kosti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2212-5472)
- Sarah Woldemariam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1873-8575)
- Marina Sirota (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7246-6083)
- David K. Stevenson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-0281)
- Feng Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3883-6930)
- Dara Torgerson
- Alice Tang
- M.Maria Glymour
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- iScience
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.114633
- Primary Topic
- Reproductive System and Pregnancy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00