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Covid-19 increases the risk of complications during

pregnancy

for mothers and babies by

50%

, a greater danger than had been verified at the beginning of the pandemic, according to a study in which 100 researchers from 43 hospitals participated. 18 countries, including the

Vall d'Hebron

in

Barcelona

and the

Lozano Blesa University Clinic

in

Zaragoza

. The international

Intercovid

study

, coordinated by the

University of Oxford

and in which 2,100 pregnant women have participated, concludes that infected women are 50% more likely to have complications during pregnancy such as

premature birth

,

preeclampsia

(high blood pressure) or

admission to the ICU

.

In statements to Efe, the researcher of the group of Maternal and Fetal Medicine of the

Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR)

Nerea Maiz

has indicated that the results are surprising, since at the beginning of the pandemic the preliminary studies indicated that the

Covid

did not It generated complications for pregnant women, although later it began to be seen that some did appear.

This study, the doctor explained, has made it possible to verify the "magnitude" of complications related to

Covid

and confirm that pregnant women are a

"vulnerable group"

, which must be treated as such in prevention policies, including the

vaccination

. Research shows that women infected with

coronavirus

are 50% more likely to have complications during pregnancy, with

pre-eclampsia

(high blood pressure during pregnancy) being the most common. Preterm labor is also frequent, in most cases linked to pre-eclampsia, since if this ailment becomes complicated it may force to induce labor before the term.

Likewise, the risk of infected pregnancies ending up in ICUs can be multiplied by up to five, according to Maiz.

Complications depend on the severity of the

Covid

: researchers have observed that the more severe the disease has been in a patient, the greater risk of having problems with pregnancy, while in asymptomatic pregnant women, hardly any variation has been detected compared to non-pregnant women without symptoms.

The study also points out that newborns of infected women have almost three times the risk of serious medical complications and of ending up in the

neonatal ICU

, mainly due to the increase in premature births.

Although as a general rule there is no transmission of the

coronavirus

from the pregnant woman to the fetus, the study has observed that one in ten newborns of infected mothers tested positive during the first days, probably, according to the researchers, due to a contagion produced after born.

According to the study, cesarean delivery could be associated with an increased risk of having an infected newborn, but what has been confirmed is that the

coronavirus is

not transmitted through breast milk.

"This is very important and reassuring, because infected mothers can continue to breastfeed," stressed Maiz.

This study places pregnant women as a vulnerable group that must be monitored, both the mother and the baby, in case of

coronavirus

infection

, according to the researcher. Regarding vaccines, preliminary studies indicate that they would be safe for pregnant women and fetuses, something that, if confirmed in other trials still under way, would place pregnant women as a priority group in immunization, Maiz said.

At this time, pregnant women are not being vaccinated in a generalized way against

Covid

, since they are at an age that is not yet being immunized and only those who are exposed to possible infections through their work or who have risk factors are vaccinated, But everything indicates that this vaccine will end up being recommended in case of pregnancy, as it already happens with the flu.

While this research sheds some light on possible

Covid

damage to

pregnancy, there is still a long way to go.

It remains to be seen whether, as with some viruses, infection in the first trimester of pregnancy can carry risks - most of the participants in this study were third trimesters - and to examine the long-term effects in mothers and children.

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