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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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