COVID-19 outcomes in hospitalized puerperal, pregnant, and neither pregnant nor puerperal women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare hospitalized reproductive age women with COVID-19 who were pregnant, puerperal, or neither one nor the other in terms of demographic and clinical characteristics and disease progression using Brazilian epidemiological data.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of the records of the Information System of the Epidemiological Surveillance of Influenza of the Health Ministry of Brazil was performed. It included the data of female patients aged 10 to 49 years hospitalized because of severe COVID-19 disease (RT-PCR+ for SARS-CoV-2), from February 17, 2020 to January 02, 2021. They were separated into 3 groups: pregnant, puerperal, and neither pregnant nor puerperal. General comparisons and then adjustments for confounding variables (propensity score matching [PSM]

SUBMITTER: Serra FE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592461 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature