Pregnancy complications spiked during the pandemic. The mystery of preeclampsia cases is part of the growing pool of information scientists are sorting through when it comes to the impact of the coronavirus on reproductive health.
The biological mechanisms are still unclear, but researchers say they likely start with changes in the blood and immune system of the mothers. Pregnancy can be both magical and brutal as it transforms a person’s body to support another life. Much of the stress is on the heart and circulatory system, with blood volume surging by 30 percent to 50 percent, and the heart growing to pump more blood.The coronavirus, it turns out, can have a profound impact on that same system.
But her findings matched up with cases colleagues were seeing in other parts of the world. And they also echoed those in aIreland that looked at seven cases — six stillbirths and one second-trimester fetal death in pregnant people infected with the coronavirus — resulting from what the authors called “a readily recognizable pattern of placental injury.” She said, “That’s when we realized we were all looking at the same thing.
During the pandemic, pregnant people infected with the coronavirus — whether symptomatic or not — were found to have a 60 percent greater risk of preeclampsia than those who were not infected, according to a number of studies. They also experienced higher rates of other complications, ranging from preterm birth and infection, to dying within six weeks of the pregnancy ending.
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