Impact of Covid-19 on risk of severe maternal morbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We examined the risk of severe life-threatening morbidity in pregnant patients with Covid-19 infection.

Methods

We conducted a population-based study of 162,576 pregnancies between March 2020 and March 2022 in Quebec, Canada. The main exposure was Covid-19 infection, including the severity, period of infection (antepartum, peripartum), and circulating variant (wildtype, alpha, delta, omicron). The outcome was severe maternal morbidity during pregnancy up to 42 days postpartum. We estimated risk ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association between Covid-19 infection and severe maternal morbidity using adjusted log-binomial regression models.

Results

Covid-19 infection was associated with twice the risk of severe maternal morbidity compar

SUBMITTER: Auger N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10481463 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature