Increase of stillbirth and decrease of late preterm infants during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2021 Jul;106(4):456. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-320682. Epub 2020 Oct 30.

Authors

Mario De Curtis¹, Leonardo Villani², Arianna Polo³

Affiliations

¹ Maternal and Child Health Department, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy mario.decurtis@uniroma1.it.
² Istituto di Sanità Pubblica-Sezione di Igiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Rome, Italy.
³ Direzione Salute e Integrazione Sociosanitaria Regione Lazio, Regione Lazio, Rome, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: mortality; neonatology.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Communicable Disease Control / methods
Delivery, Obstetric* / methods
Delivery, Obstetric* / statistics & numerical data
Female
Gestational Age
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Italy / epidemiology
Male
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Outcome / epidemiology
Premature Birth / epidemiology*
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
Stillbirth / epidemiology*
Term Birth*