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When one study says a treatment works, but another says it doesn’t (or worse), how are clinicians supposed to determine what they should do? A Penn Medicine t
FRIDAY, Nov. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When preteen children or very young teenagers become pregnant, they face higher rates of complications and a greater risk of winding up in
, 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 H...
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Pregnant women who are hospitalized with COVID-19 and viral pneumonia are less likely than non-pregnant women to die from these infections, according to a new study by researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). The study was published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. The study examined medical records from nearly 1,100 pregnant patients and more than 9,800 non-pregnant women ages 15 to 45 who were hospitalized with COVID-19 and pneumoni...
COVID-19 death rates low in pregnant, hospitalized women, study finds Compared with non-pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19, pregnant women with COVID-19 had lower in-hospital death rates, according to a research letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine today. University of Texas (UTHealth) and University of Maryland researchers looked at 1,062 pregnant and 9,815 non-pregnant patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and viral pneumonia from April to November 2020. All were 15 to 45 years old. Pregnant women had a 0.8% mortality rate, compared with 3.5% in the non-pregnant group, and this d...