Effect of Prenatal Maternal COVID-19 Vaccine on Pregnancy Outcomes
Abstract
Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the pregnancy results of prenatal COVID-19 vaccinated and unvaccinated pregnant women who gave birth in our clinic and to present the statistical analyses of the obtained data. Methods: We retrospectively scanned and compared 301 vaccinated and 653 unvaccinated total 954 pregnant data who gave birth between August 2021 and January 2023 in a tertiary university hospital, gynecology and obstetrics clinic in the statistical evaluation, skewness/kurtosis tests were used to assess normality; Student's t-test was applied for parametric data, the Mann–Whitney U test for non-parametric data, and the Paired t-test for comparing 1st and 5th minute APGAR scores. Results: No significant difference was found between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups in terms of weeks of birth and birth weights. There was no difference between the two groups in terms of blood pH values and 1st/ 5th minute APGAR scores in newborns. The rates of delivery patterns, abortions, presence of complications, and preterm birth were found to have similar frequencies in the two groups. Conclusions: Our study found that the administration of the maternal COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy is not related to adverse prenatal outcomes. It was determined that only the placental abruption ratio was seen more frequently in the unvaccinated group.
Keywords
Pregnancy, Covid-19, Vaccine, Nursing
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