Relation between disaster exposure, maternal characteristics, and obstetric outcomes: the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The study analyzed the relation between disaster exposure prior to pregnancy, maternal characteristics, and obstetric outcomes.

Methods

The participants were 13,148 pregnant women recruited from 2013 to 2017. The women were classified into three groups by the severity of housing damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011: group A, house was not destroyed/did not live in the disaster area; group B, half/part of the house was destroyed; and group C, house was totally/mostly destroyed. Maternal characteristics, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and gestational weeks were obtained by questionnaires and medical records. Multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to investigate the relation between di

SUBMITTER: Ishikuro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9909171 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature