Association between the COVID-19 pandemic and the risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes remain unclear. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the association between the COVID-19 pandemic and the risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Design

We conduced retrospective analyses on two cohorts comprising 7699 pregnant women in Beijing, China, and compared pregnancy outcomes between the pre-COVID-2019 cohort (women who delivered from 20 May 2019 to 30 November 2019) and the COVID-2019 cohort (women who delivered from 20 January 2020 to 31 July 2020). The secondary impacts of the COVID-2019 pandemic on pregnancy outcomes were assessed by using multivariate log-binomial regression models, and we used interrupted time-series (ITS) regression analysis to further control the

SUBMITTER: Du M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7907630 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature