Covid-19 in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of complications.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ANKARA — Studies recently published in the magazine Nature Medicine revealed that pregnant women who were not vaccinated were more likely to be hospitalized if infected with COVID-19. Pregnant women can experience complications and be born prematurely.
“COVID-19 in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of certain pregnancy complications of preeclampsia, premature birth and stillbirth,” according to the magazine. ‘SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women in Scotland’, uses data from an 11-month observation of 87,000 pregnant women in Scotland from December 2020-October 2021.
The study also noted that pregnant women did not appear to be more susceptible to the virus than nonpregnant women. Researchers found that pregnant women are at high risk of developing severe COVID-19.
Researchers also found that pregnant women who were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 were more likely to be admitted to critical care, use invasive ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and also die.
From December 2020-October 2021, 2,364 babies were born to mothers who contracted COVID-19 during pregnancy. “From that number, as many as 2,353 babies were born alive, with 241 of them born prematurely,” he continued.
While the percentage of premature births in the general population is 8 percent, 17 percent of babies are born within 28 days of their mother being infected with COVID-19.
source: Between
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