COVID-19 pandemic and population-level pregnancy and neonatal outcomes: a living systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Conflicting reports of increases and decreases in rates of preterm birth (PTB) and stillbirth in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic have surfaced. The objective of our study was to conduct a living systematic review and meta-analyses of studies reporting pregnancy and neonatal outcomes by comparing the pandemic and pre-pandemic periods.

Material and methods

We searched PubMed and Embase databases, reference lists of articles published up until 14 May 2021 and included English language studies that compared outcomes between the COVID-19 pandemic time period and pre-pandemic time periods. Risk of bias was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. We conducted random-effects meta-analysis using the inverse variance method.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Yang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8222877 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature