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15.01.2022 01:42 News >> Unvaccinated Pregnant Women More Likely To Suffer Complications From Coronavirus: Study
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Unvaccinated Pregnant Women More Likely To Suffer Complications From Coronavirus: Study
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Pregnant women with virus ‘more likely to be admitted to critical care, receive invasive ventilation ... and die,’ say researchers.
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Research recently published in Nature Medicine magazine revealed that unvaccinated pregnant women are more likely to be hospitalized for the coronavirus. "COVID-19 in pregnancy is associated with increased risk of the pregnancy specific complications pre-eclampsia, preterm birth and stillbirth," according to the monthly research magazine. "SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination rates in pregnant women in Scotland," that analyzed data from an 11-month observation of 87,000 pregnant women in Scotland from December 2020 to October 2021. Noting that pregnant women do not seem to be more susceptible to the virus than non-pregnant women, researchers found that pregnant women are still at "higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease." They also found that "pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection are more likely to be admitted to critical care, receive invasive ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and die." From December 2020 and October 2021, a total of 2,364 babies were born to mothers with COVID-19 during pregnancy. "Of these, 2,353 were live births, of which 241 were preterm births," it added. While the percentage of premature births in the general population was 8%, that rate was 17% in babies born within 28 days of their mothers being infected with the virus. -
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