TY - JOUR
T1 - Coronavirus and birth in Italy
T2 - Results of a national population-based cohort study
AU - ItOSS COVID-19 Working GroupSerena Donati
AU - Donati, Serena
AU - Maraschini, Alice
AU - Lega, Ilaria
AU - D'Aloja, Paola
AU - Sampaolo, Letizia
AU - Salvatore, Michele Antonio
AU - Corsi, Edoardo
AU - Alberico, Salvatore
AU - Casucci, Paola
AU - Cetin, Irene
AU - Dardanoni, Gabriella
AU - Doganiero, Franco
AU - Franchi, Massimo Piergiuseppe
AU - Ferrazzi, Enrico
AU - Leo, Livio
AU - Liberati, Marco
AU - Locci, Mariavittoria
AU - Martini, Claudio
AU - Mecacci, Federico
AU - Meloni, Alessandra
AU - Mignuoli, Anna Domenica
AU - Mondo, Luisa
AU - Patanè, Luisa
AU - Perrone, Enrica
AU - Prefumo, Federico
AU - Ramenghi, Luca
AU - Savasi, Valeria
AU - Schettini, Sergio
AU - Steinkasserer, Martin
AU - Tateo, Saverio
AU - Trojano, Vito
AU - Vergani, Patrizia
N1 - Funding Information:
Source of financial support
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Istituto Superiore di Sanita. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Introduction. The study was implemented to provide guidance to decision-makers and clinicians by describing hospital care offered to women who gave birth with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Materials and methods. National population‐based prospective cohort study involving all women with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who gave birth between February 25 and April 22, 2020 in any Italian hospital. Results. The incidence rate of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in women who gave birth was 2.1 per 1000 maternities at a national level and 6.9/1000 in the Lombardy Region. Overall one third of the women developed a pneumonia and 49.7% assumed at least one drug against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Caesarean rate was 32.9%, no mothers nor newborns died. Six percent of the infants tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at birth. Conclusions. Clinical features and outcomes of COVID-19 in women who gave birth are similar to those described for the general population, most women developing mild to moderate illness.
AB - Introduction. The study was implemented to provide guidance to decision-makers and clinicians by describing hospital care offered to women who gave birth with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Materials and methods. National population‐based prospective cohort study involving all women with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who gave birth between February 25 and April 22, 2020 in any Italian hospital. Results. The incidence rate of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in women who gave birth was 2.1 per 1000 maternities at a national level and 6.9/1000 in the Lombardy Region. Overall one third of the women developed a pneumonia and 49.7% assumed at least one drug against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Caesarean rate was 32.9%, no mothers nor newborns died. Six percent of the infants tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at birth. Conclusions. Clinical features and outcomes of COVID-19 in women who gave birth are similar to those described for the general population, most women developing mild to moderate illness.
KW - Cohort studies
KW - COVID-19
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Pregnancy outcome
KW - SARS-CoV-2
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U2 - 10.4415/ANN_20_03_17
DO - 10.4415/ANN_20_03_17
M3 - Article
C2 - 32959805
AN - SCOPUS:85091470531
VL - 56
SP - 378
EP - 389
JO - Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita
JF - Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita
SN - 0021-2571
IS - 3
ER -