Changes in rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in the United States, 2019–2020

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• Alternative Title:
  J Perinatol
• Personal Author:
  Simeone, Regina M. ; Downing, Karrie F. ; Wallace, Bailey ; Galang, Romeo R. ; DeSisto, Carla L. ; Tong, Van T. ; Zapata, Lauren B. ; Ko, Jean Y. ; Ellington, Sascha R.
• Description:
  OBJECTIVE:
  
  Our objective was to assess differences in pregnancy outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the previous year.
  
  STUDY DESIGN:
  
  In a cross-sectional study of delivery hospitalizations in the Premier Healthcare Database Special COVID-19 Release, we assessed differences in selected maternal and pregnancy outcomes occurring April–December in 2019 and 2020 in the United States.
  
  RESULT:
  
  Among 663,620 deliveries occurring in 2019 and 614,093 deliveries occurring in 2020, we observed an increase in in-hospital maternal death from 2019 to 2020, which was no longer statistically significant after excluding deliveries with a COVID-19 diagnosis. Intensive care unit admission and preterm birth decreased from 2019 to 2020. There was no difference in the prevalence of most other outcomes examined.
  
  CONCLUSION:
  
  The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and pregnancy outcomes remains to be understood. Most outcomes investigated experienced minimal change from 2019 to 2020.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article COVID-19 COVID-19 Testing Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Infant, Newborn Pandemics Pregnancy Pregnancy Outcome Premature Birth United States

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• Source:
  J Perinatol. 42(5):617-623
• Pubmed ID:
  35169228
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8852860
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b7ac21fd88cdfa45bbf463c1a5645ea7dd38f63d724b174fcd336f806c00f858
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/117315/cdc_117315_DS1.pdf
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