Pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatoid arthritis: an 11-year French nationwide study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can affect women of childbearing age. The management of patients with RA during pregnancy has evolved over the past decades, especially with the availability of new therapeutic molecules.

Objectives

To describe pregnancy in women with RA, to compare pregnancy outcomes with those of women in the general population and to compare pregnancy outcomes in women with active and inactive RA.

Methods

Using the French National Health Data System, we identified all pregnancies ending between 2010 and 2020 in patients with and without RA. Characteristics were described. Active RA was defined by conventional synthetic/biological/targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug initiation, systemic or intra-articular corticosteroid admini

SUBMITTER: Pina Vegas L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806509 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature