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, MD, PhD,
a maternalâfetal medicine fellow with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, and colleagues noted that earlier studies were limited by missing data, including pregnancy status, and likely had “biased case ascertainment.” Reference: Harris AD, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2021;10.7326/M21-0974.
The current study utilized the Premier Healthcare Database, “which captures 20% of U.S. discharges in an automated fashion from electronic medical records and provides a complete list of all patients who were discharged from the participating hospitals,” Pineles
told Healio Primary Care.
“Thus, we are very unlikely to be missing patients, and the data are robust,” she added.
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Pregnant patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had a lower risk of mortality than those who were not pregnant, a retrospective cohort study found.
The mortality rate was less than 1% for pregnant women who were hospitalized with COVID-19 and viral pneumonia, as compared to 3.5% in the nonpregnant population, reported Beth Pineles, MD, PhD, of the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, and colleagues.
The median time from hospital admission to death was 18 days in the pregnant cohort versus 12 days among patients who were not pregnant, they wrote in a brief report in the
The study also found that in subgroups of patients who were admitted to intensive care or required mechanical ventilation, pregnant COVID-19 patients had lower in-hospital mortality compared to those who were not pregnant.
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New research based on an analysis of data from a large U.S. health care database suggests that in-hospital mortality is low in pregnant women with COVID-19. The retrospective cohort study is published in
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Previous reports suggested an increased risk for death in pregnant women with COVID-19 compared to nonpregnant women of reproductive age. However, these studies may have been limited by factors such as registries with a significant proportion of missing data and biased case ascertainment.
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston studied data from the Premier Healthcare Database, an all-payer data repository that captures 20% of U.S. hospitalizations, to evaluate the risk for in-hospital death among pregnant and nonpregnant patients of reproductive age hospitalized with COVID-19. The cohort consisted of 1,062 pregnant and 9,815 nonp