Infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy and risk of stillbirth: a Scandinavian registry study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A few studies indicate that women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy might have an increased risk of stillbirth. Our aim was to investigate the risk of stillbirth according to infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy also taking the variant into account.

Methods

We conducted a register-based study using the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian birth registries. A total of 389 949 births (1013 stillbirths) after 22 completed gestational weeks between 1 May 2020 and end of follow-up (27 January 2022 for Sweden and Norway; 31 December 2021 for Denmark). We estimated the risk of stillbirth following SARS-CoV-2 infection after 22 completed gestational weeks using Cox regression for each country, and combined the results using a random-effects meta-analysis.

Result

SUBMITTER: Magnus MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812723 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature