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Pregnant women with COVID-19 may be more likely to have a preterm birth. But they don t have an increased risk of stillbirth or baby death soon after birth, researchers found.
Updated Feb 25, 2021 | 13:47 IST
The study found that no babies, examined in the study, died due to COVID-19. At the same time, there was also no increase in the risk of stillbirth or low birth weight. Myth buster: Pregnant women with COVID are not at high risk of stillbirths, miscarriages | Photo Credit: iStock Images
New Delhi: COVID-19 has been found to cause a wide range of symptoms. The virus also affects different people in different ways and factors that affect it include existing health conditions, age, ethnicity, and conditions such as pregnancy. Pregnant women have been found to be at high risk of COVID-19 disease, and complications due to the same. Some people have said that COVID-19 can increase the risk of abnormalities in the baby as well, and may also put them at a high risk of stillbirths.
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COVID-19 infection in pregnancy is not associated with stillbirth or early neonatal death, according to a new study.
However the research, from over 4000 pregnant women with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, also found women who had a positive test were more likely to have a premature birth.
The research, led by scientists from Imperial College London and published in the journal
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, used data from the UK and the USA.
The study team looked at data from 4004 pregnant women who had suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Of these women, 1606 were from the UK, from a data registry called PAN-COVID, while 2398 were from the US, from the American Academy of Pediatrics SONPM data registry.