Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Sickle Cell Disease in the National Inpatient Sample, 2012-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Pregnancy outcomes are historically poor among people with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the US, most of whom have Black race. Whether outcomes have improved is unknown.

Objective

To tabulate adverse pregnancy outcomes among patients with SCD, comparing outcomes of deliveries among Black people with SCD with those of Black people without SCD and a control non-Black population, and to measure the association of racial disparities with adverse outcomes in SCD pregnancies.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study was a secondary analysis involving data from National Inpatient Sample, a nationally representative sample of 20% of acute hospital admissions in the US, between 2012 and 2018. The data set included all admissions with codes for del

SUBMITTER: Early ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9896307 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature