Changing Patterns and Factors Associated With Mode of Delivery Among Pregnant Women With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe patterns and factors associated with mode of delivery among pregnant women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States in relation to evolving HIV-in-pregnancy guidelines.

Methods

We conducted an analysis of two observational studies, Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group and International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network Protocol P1025, which enrolled pregnant women with HIV infection from 1998 to 2013 at more than 60 U.S. acquired immunodeficiency syndrome clinical research sites. Multivariable analyses of factors associated with an HIV-indicated cesarean delivery (ie, for prevention of mother-to-child transmission) compared with other indications were conducted and compared according to prespecified

SUBMITTER: Venkatesh KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6075712 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature