{"id":218721,"date":"2021-04-02T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stillbirths-maternal-deaths-climb-amid-pandemic-studies-find\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:15:18","slug":"stillbirths-maternal-deaths-climb-amid-pandemic-studies-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stillbirths-maternal-deaths-climb-amid-pandemic-studies-find\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stillbirths, maternal deaths climb amid pandemic, studies find"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stillbirths, maternal deaths climb amid pandemic, studies find<\/strong>”
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Overwhelmed health systems<\/a>\u00a0and less access to care during the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0<\/a>pandemic worsened birth outcomes for expectant mothers and newborns around the world, an analysis of dozens of studies suggests.<\/p>\n

Researchers from St. George\u2019s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K.\u00a0published\u00a0<\/a>findings in The Lancet Global Health on Wednesday, with results drawing from 40 studies conducted from January 2020 through January 2021 on over 6 million pregnancies and rates of outcomes like complications and deaths. The team drew reports from Medline\u00a0and Embase research databases.<\/p>\n

Findings indicated \u201csignificant increases\u201d in stillbirths and maternal deaths by about one-third during the pandemic, though the rate of overall preterm births remained about the same compared to pre-pandemic life. More specifically, researchers cited a 28% uptick in stillbirths, noting 1,099 stillbirths per 168,295 pregnancies during the pandemic, compared to pre-pandemic rates at 1,325 stillbirths per 198,993 pregnancies. Maternal deaths occurred at reported rates of 530 per 1,237,018 pregnancies during the pandemic, compared to 698 per 2,224,859 pregnancies pre-pandemic.<\/p>\n

The team also reported a decline in mothers\u2019 mental health like heightened depression and anxiety, and additional findings indicated a six-fold uptick in surgeries relating to ectopic pregnancies (occurring outside of the uterus), suggesting women delayed medical care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis finding suggests that the increased rate of adverse outcomes might be driven mainly by the inefficiency of health-care systems and their inability to cope with the pandemic, rather than by the stringency of pandemic mitigation measures,\u201d study authors wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear from our study and others that the disruption caused by the pandemic has led to the avoidable deaths of both mothers and babies, especially in low- and middle-income countries,\u201d said Asma Khalil, lead study author and professor at St George\u2019s University of London, in part in a release. \u201cWe urge policymakers and health care leaders to prioritise safe, accessible, and equitable maternity care within the strategic response to the pandemic and aftermath, to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team noted limitations in the findings, such as fewer studies conducted in lower-income\u00a0countries, which was \u201cconcerning\u201d due\u00a0to considerable differences in outcomes among these countries. For instance, while high-income countries saw a notable decline in preterm births, lower-income countries did not.<\/p>\n

Several other factors could have contributed to the worsened outcomes, such as maternity staff redirected to treat critical patients during the pandemic, and also an increase in \u201cintimate-partner violence,\u201d study authors suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can prioritise safe and accessible maternity care during the pandemic and the aftermath, while planning for a future of radically inclusive and equitable maternity care that will draw on the lessons of this pandemic to reduce preterm birth, stillbirth, and maternal mortality worldwide,\u201d study authors concluded.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Stillbirths, maternal deaths climb amid pandemic, studies find” Overwhelmed health systems\u00a0and less access to care during the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0pandemic worsened birth outcomes for expectant mothers and newborns around the world, an analysis of dozens of studies suggests. Researchers from St. George\u2019s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the U.K.\u00a0published\u00a0findings in The Lancet Global Health on Wednesday, with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/stillbirth-covid-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[100498,70477,1545,70478,9724],"class_list":["post-218721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-2-21","tag-childbirth","tag-coronavirus","tag-pregnancy","tag-study-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}