Changes in conception rates, not in pregnancy-related behaviour, likely caused decline in preterm births during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
BJOG. 2023 Sep;130(10):1153-1155.
doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17568.
Epub 2023 Jun 4.
1 Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2 Rockwool Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark.
3 Institute of Social Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
4 MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
5 Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
6 Population and Society Research Unit, Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Application 'Giuseppe Parenti'(DiSIA), University of Florence, Florence, Italy.