Samuel Ann Crawford

Acknowledgments Under the direction of the authors, medical writing support was provided by Sarah Morgan, PhD, employee of Excel Medical Affairs (Fairfield, CT, USA), and was funded by Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc., Lexington, MA, USA. Josh Epstein, an employee of Stratevi, was involved in the model design and the analysis and interpretation of the data. Declaration of interest SX Sun is an employee of Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc., and a Takeda stock owner.

Maternal and infant mortality is higher in the United States than in most developed countries,1,2 particularly among women in low-income communities.3,4 Although national policies designed to improve pregnancy and birth outcomes have historically targeted disadvantaged women during pregnancy, there is growing recognition that the period before pregnancy also shapes the subsequent health of expectant mothers and their children.5–8 Maternal risk factors associated with poor pregnancy outcomes...

Rebecca Myerson is an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in Madison, Wisconsin. Samuel Crawford is a PhD student in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, in Los Angeles, California. Laura R.