A group of pregnant women prepare to receive their Covid-19 vaccine in Mexico City, Mexico. Those who develop Covid-19 while pregnant have higher chances of experiencing certain pregnancy-related complications. Reuters
The cumulative number of positive Covid-19 cases in Malaysia exceeded more than 460,000 as of May 16 (2021).
There is a dearth of local information on Covid-19 in pregnancy, apart from four cases in Hospital Sungai Buloh, which were highlighted in a case report published in Universiti Teknologi Mara Faculty of Medicine’s
Journal of Clinical and Health Sciences in January (2021).
The information in this article is from international sources.
Whether it applies to the Malaysian setting in toto, only time will tell.
Research Article
International gestational age-specific centiles for blood pressure in pregnancy from the INTERGROWTH-21st Project in 8 countries: A longitudinal cohort study
Lauren J. Green , Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Affiliations Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Affiliation Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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