Impact of COVID-19 infection during pregnancy

ABSTRACT

Objective: to analyse the impact of the infection by SARSCoV- 2 in pregnant women, in terms of obstetric and perinatal consequences. Method: a descriptive, longitudinal, observational and retrospective study conducted in the Hospital Infanta Cristina (Parla, Madrid) with pregnant women infected with COVID-19 during the second half of their pregnancy and/or labour, since the start of the pandemic in Spain in March until December 2020. The association between the need for hospital admission and sociodemographic, anthropometric and pregnancy variables was analysed with the Student's T test, Mann Whitney U test, Pearson's Chi Squared and Fisher's Exact Test, with a p< 0.05 significance. Results: the study included 46 women;37% of them were Spanish, and their mean age was 31.3 years. The mean Body Mass Index (BMI) of the pregnant women was of 25.9 kg/m2, the majority were multiparous, and there was a predominance of asymptomatic pregnancies (54.23%) followed by symptoms such as cough and dyspnea (13%) and fever (13%). Four women required hospital admission, and one of them required Intensive Care. No significant differences were found according to hospital admission, although the gestational age at the time of delivery was lower among hospitalized women (38 vs. 39.5 weeks;p= 0.095) and their BMI was higher (29.7 vs. 25 kg/m2;p= 0.559). There were no perinatal deaths. Conclusions: infection by COVID19 does not seem to have any impact on pregnancy evolution or perinatal survival, although further research is required. © 2021 DAE Editorial, Grupo Paradigma. All rights reserved.