A new study has tied premature births in Latina women in the US to the 2016 election .

In the nine months following November 2016, a study done by JAMA Medical Journal showed 3.2 to 3.6 per cent more preterm births occurred than expected in the Latina demographic.

However, the authors also note that the pre-term birth rate is correlated to the election, not caused by it.

"Because mothers and children are particularly vulnerable to psychosocial stress, our findings suggest that political campaigns, rhetoric and policies can contribute to increased levels of preterm birth," said Alison Gemmill, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and author of the study.

"We think there are very few alternative explanations for these results. One possible explanation could be if there was a sudden change in the composition of Latina women giving birth around the time of the election.”