Pregnancy and the Risk of In-Hospital Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate whether pregnancy is an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality among patients of reproductive age hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) viral pneumonia.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study (April 2020-May 2021) of 23,574 female inpatients aged 15-45 years with an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis code for COVID-19 discharged from 749 U.S. hospitals in the Premier Healthcare Database. We used a viral pneumonia diagnosis to select for patients with symptomatic COVID-19. The associations between pregnancy and in-hospital mortality, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and mechanical ventilation were analyzed using propensity score-matched conditional logistic r

SUBMITTER: Pineles BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9015030 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature