Analysis of the impact of maternal sepsis on pregnancy outcomes: a population-based retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate the association between maternal sepsis during pregnancy and poor pregnancy outcome and to identify risk factors for poor birth outcomes and adverse perinatal events.

Methods

We linked the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study (TBCS) database and the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Database (NHID) to conduct this population-based study. We analysed the data of pregnant women who met the criteria for sepsis-3 during pregnancy between 2005 and 2017 as the maternal sepsis cases and selected pregnant women without infection as the non-sepsis comparison cohort. Sepsis during pregnancy and fulfilled the sepsis-3 definition proposed in 2016. The primary outcome included low birth weight (LBW, < 2500 g) and preterm birth (< 34 weeks), and the secondary outcome was

SUBMITTER: Chen HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11295718 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature