Human papillomavirus infections during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a Scandinavian prospective mother-child cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human papillomaviruses are common in the urogenital tract amongst women of childbearing age. A few studies indicate a possible association between human papillomavirus infections in pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes whilst other studies find no such association. We aimed to investigate the association between human papillomavirus infections during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes linked to placental dysfunction, including hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, gestational diabetes mellitus and newborns small for gestational age.

Materials and methods

Pregnant women from the general population in Norway and Sweden were enrolled at the time of routine mid-gestational ultrasound examination. Urine samples collected at mid-gestation in 950 and at delivery

SUBMITTER: Værnesbranden MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11575420 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature