{"id":9192,"date":"2020-08-19T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:18:15","slug":"sars-cov-2-covid-19-infection-in-pregnant-women-characterization-of-symptoms-and-syndromes-predictive-of-disease-and-severity-through-real-time-remote-participatory-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/19\/sars-cov-2-covid-19-infection-in-pregnant-women-characterization-of-symptoms-and-syndromes-predictive-of-disease-and-severity-through-real-time-remote-participatory-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection in Pregnant Women Characterization of Symptoms and Syndromes Predictive\u00a0of Disease and Severity through Real-Time Remote Participatory Epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An observational study\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">used a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">smart<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">phone app<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lication and web-based survey<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to collect\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">self-reported pregnancy status<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and COV<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">D-19-related\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptom\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">information\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0&gt;400,000 women in the UK and Sweden and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&gt;1.3 million\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reports from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">women in the US<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Investigators found<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the profile of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptom characteristics and severity\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0pregnant women<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0were comparable to those observed among non-pregnant women, except for gastrointestinal symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Pregnant women were more likely to have received SARS-CoV-2 testing than non-pregnant<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0women<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, despite reporting fewer clinical symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Consistent with observations in non-pregnant populations, comorbidities such as lung disease and diabetes were associated with an increased risk of more severe SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Molteni<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. 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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection in Pregnant Women Characterization of Symptoms and Syndromes Predictive\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">of Disease and Severity through Real-Time Remote Participatory Epidemiology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded Aug 19 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.17.20161760\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.17.20161760<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0An observational study\u00a0used a\u00a0smartphone application and web-based survey\u00a0to collect\u00a0self-reported pregnancy status\u00a0and COVID-19-related\u00a0symptom\u00a0information\u00a0from\u00a0&gt;400,000 women in the UK and Sweden and\u00a0&gt;1.3 million\u00a0reports from\u00a0women in the US.\u00a0Investigators found\u00a0that\u00a0the profile of\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0symptom characteristics and severity\u00a0among\u00a0pregnant women\u00a0were comparable to those observed among non-pregnant women, except for gastrointestinal symptoms.\u00a0Pregnant women were more likely to have received SARS-CoV-2 testing than&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/19\/sars-cov-2-covid-19-infection-in-pregnant-women-characterization-of-symptoms-and-syndromes-predictive-of-disease-and-severity-through-real-time-remote-participatory-epidemiology\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9193,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}