Heated rhetoric about immigration during the presidential campaign may have caused a rise in premature births among foreign-born Hispanic women in the city, according to a city Health Department report.

The rate among mothers born in Mexico and Central America rose from 7.3 percent in the Sept. 1, 2015-through-July 21, 2016 period, to 8.4 percent in the post-election period of Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, 2017, according to the study conducted by the department and the Harvard School of Public Health.

“These results suggest that the increase in socio-political stressors and hate crimes tied to the 2016 presidential election may have contributed to the risk of pre-term birth,” the study said.

But critics slammed the report.

“The most conclusive part of this study is that we have reached peak Trump derangement syndrome,” said City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-SI).