Pregnant COVID-19 patients at increased risk of death and serious complications

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Pregnant women with COVID-19 are significantly more likely to face a serious and potentially fatal health complication during pregnancy, according to international researchers. The team looked at data from about 14,000 pregnancies in the US, including 2352 COVID-19 positive patients. Looking at the rates of death and serious complications relating to high blood pressure, haemorrhage and infections other than COVID-19, the researchers say the risk was 13.4 per cent for COVID-19 patients, compared to 9.2 per cent among those without COVID-19. All five mothers who died during the study had COVID-19.

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conference: JAMA

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Organisation/s: University of Utah Health, USA

Funder: This work is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (grants UG1 HD087230, UG1 HD027869,UG1 HD027915, UG1 HD034208, UG1 HD040500, UG1 HD040485, UG1 HD053097, UG1HD040544, UG1 HD040545, UG1 HD040560, UG1 HD040512, UG1 HD087192, and U10 HD036801) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (grant UL1TR001873).

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