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Sonia Hernandez-Diaz

Sonia Hernandez-Diaz

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Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
40537
World Ranking
8850
National Ranking
4559

Overview

Sonia Hernandez-Diaz is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on public health, pediatrics, perinatology, obstetrics, epidemiology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work spans several main topics related to pregnancy and maternal health, including:

  • Pregnancy and Medication Impact
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Hernandez-Diaz are:

  • COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countries (2021), published in European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy (2021), published in Nature Medicine
  • A cross-national study of factors associated with women's perinatal mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • Buprenorphine versus Methadone for Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy (2022), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Hydroxychloroquine early in pregnancy and risk of birth defects (2020), published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hernandez-Diaz include:

  • Krista F. Huybrechts
  • Brian T. Bateman
  • Loreen Straub
  • Helen Mogun
  • Kathryn J. Gray

Hernandez-Diaz's publications are frequently found in the following venues, highlighting a consistent contribution to specific scientific journals:

  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Epidemiology
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • A structural approach to selection bias.

    Miguel A Hernán;Sonia Hernández-Díaz;James M Robins

  • Causal Knowledge as a Prerequisite for Confounding Evaluation: An Application to Birth Defects Epidemiology

    Miguel A. Hernán;Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Martha M. Werler;Allen A. Mitchell

  • Major congenital malformations after first-trimester exposure to ACE inhibitors

    William O. Cooper;Sonia Hernandez-Diaz;Patrick G. Arbogast;Judith A. Dudley

  • Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors and Risk of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn

    Christina D Chambers;Sonia Hernandez-Diaz;Linda J Van Marter;Martha M Werler

  • Folic Acid Antagonists During Pregnancy and the Risk of Birth Defects

    Sonia Hernández-Diaz;Martha M. Werler;Alexander M. Walker;Allen A. Mitchell

  • Association Between Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs and Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding/Perforation: An Overview of Epidemiologic Studies Published in the 1990s

    Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Luis Alberto García Rodríguez

  • Medication use during pregnancy, with particular focus on prescription drugs: 1976-2008

    Allen A Mitchell;Suzanne M Gilboa;Martha M Werler;Katherine E Kelley

  • First-Trimester Use of Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors and the Risk of Birth Defects

    C. Louik;A.E. Lin;M.M. Werler;S. Hernández-Díaz

  • Comparative safety of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy

    S. Hernández-Díaz;C.R. Smith;A. Shen;R. Mittendorf

  • Risk of pre-eclampsia in first and subsequent pregnancies: prospective cohort study.

    Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Sengwee Toh;Sven Cnattingius

  • Specifying a target trial prevents immortal time bias and other self-inflicted injuries in observational analyses

    Miguel A. Hernán;Miguel A. Hernán;Brian C. Sauer;Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Robert Platt

  • The effect of combined antiretroviral therapy on the overall mortality of HIV-infected individuals

    Maile Ray;Roger Logan;Jonathan A C Sterne;Sonia Hernández-Díaz

  • Beyond the intention-to-treat in comparative effectiveness research

    Miguel A Hernán;Sonia Hernández-Díaz

  • COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countries.

    Malia Skjefte;Michelle Ngirbabul;Oluwasefunmi Akeju;Daniel Escudero

  • Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy and the Risk of Cardiac Defects

    K.F. Huybrechts;K. Palmsten;J. Avorn;L.S. Cohen

  • Use of over-the-counter medications during pregnancy.

    Martha M. Werler;Allen A. Mitchell;Sonia Hernandez-Diaz;Margaret A. Honein

  • The Birth Weight “Paradox” Uncovered?

    Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Enrique F. Schisterman;Miguel A. Hernán

  • Relative risk of upper gastrointestinal complications among users of acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

    Luis Alberto García Rodríguez;Sonia Hernández-Díaz

  • Development of a comorbidity index for use in obstetric patients.

    Brian T. Bateman;Jill M. Mhyre;Sonia Hernandez-Diaz;Krista F. Huybrechts

  • Increase in Prescription Opioid Use During Pregnancy Among Medicaid-enrolled Women

    R. J. Desai;S. Hernandez-Diaz;B. T. Bateman;K. F. Huybrechts

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian T. Bateman
Brian T. Bateman Stanford University
Allen A. Mitchell
Allen A. Mitchell Boston University
Miguel A. Hernán
Miguel A. Hernán Harvard University
Luis A. García Rodríguez
Luis A. García Rodríguez Centro Español de Investigación Farmacoepidemiológica
Paige L. Williams
Paige L. Williams Harvard University
Robert J. Glynn
Robert J. Glynn Harvard Medical School
Lewis B. Holmes
Lewis B. Holmes Harvard University
Lee S. Cohen
Lee S. Cohen Harvard University
Catarina Almqvist
Catarina Almqvist Karolinska Institute
Mika Gissler
Mika Gissler Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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