COVID-19 occasionally associated with serious childbirth complicationsPregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to experience complications such as heart attacks or blood clots, though the absolute increased risk is small, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine research letter today.These findings highlight the need for risk mitigations, the authors write, adding that pregnant women should also be included in COVID-19 vaccine and treatment trials.Using hospital codes within the US Premier Healthcare Database, the researchers looked at 406,446 hospitalizations for childbirth between Apr 1 and Nov 23, 2020.
Of these, the 6,380 (1.6%) pregnant women who had COVID-19 were more likely to experience myocardial infarction (heart attack; adjusted