The association between pregnancy and COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to compare and determine whether there were any differences in clinical outcomes between pregnant and non-pregnant women who had been infected with COVID-19.

Methods

A literature search was performed in 9 databases on November 20, 2021. The relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was used to estimate the effect of pregnancy on COVID-19 outcomes. The I square value was used to assess heterogeneity, and the random or the fixed-effects model were adopted. Sensitivity and publication bias analyses were performed.

Results

This study included 8 published studies with 859,278 COVID-19 female patients. The incidences of fever and cough among pregnant women with COVID-19 were 19.07% and 28.79%, respectively. Pregnancy w

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8986277 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature