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Review Suggests COVID-19 Paradox in Pregnancy – MedPage Today
More likely to be asymptomatic, yet overt illness more severe; are skewed data the reason?
Pregnant patients with COVID-19 were more likely to require intensive care, yet less likely to show symptoms, according to a “living systematic review.”
Compared to non-pregnant women, pregnant women with COVID-19 were 60% more likely to require admission to the intensive care unit (OR 1.62, 95% CI 1.33-1.96) and had nearly double the risk of invasive ventilation (OR 1.88, 95% CI 1.36-2.60), according to John Allotey, PhD, of the University of Birmingham in England, and colleagues.
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