During the second wave, there has been a considerable increase in the percentage of stillbirths which means a baby loses its life in the womb after more than 20 weeks of pregnancy stated a study by two Mumbai institutes, reported the Times of India.
The results were shown through a backdated study of 1,645 pregnant women with COVID-19 who received treatment and delivered babies between April 2020 and July 2021 at BYL Nair Hospital. The stillbirth rate rose by more than twice the number during the second wave of the coronavirus at 34.8 per 1,000 births as opposed to 14.6 in the first wave.
In terms of complete numbers, there were 12 stillbirths from the 807 deliveries in the first wave, with 12 stillbirths from 335 deliveries in the second wave. Of the 24 women with stillbirths, 41.7% were symptomatic.
Authors from Nair Hospital and the National Institute of Research in Reproductive Health, based in Parel jointly stated that their study highlights evidence of an increase in stillbirth during the second wave in the country in contrast to the first wave and before the pandemic struck. The paper was published in the European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. They were also of the opinion that coronavirus’s impact must entail stillbirths.
A grave blood pressure issue in pregnant women, preeclampsia was larger in those with stillbirths in the second wave with 25% in contrast to the first wave with 8.3% is presumed to have resulted in the greater stillbirths. They also go on to make a hypothesis that the rise in the number of stillbirths can be related to the Delta variant. However, they couldn’t make this claim with certainty since there was an absence of data from genome sequencing.
The study ascribed one-fourth of the stillbirths in the second wave of coronavirus since patients suffered from moderate to severe disease. Whilst in the first wave none of the women pregnant in the hospital had grave symptoms, in the next wave some had breathing problems by the time they were admitted, few were admitted with intrauterine foetal death.
The percentage of symptomatic women in the second wave of 35.9% was greater in contrast to the first wave of 14.2%. In both waves combined, 21% of the 1,645 pregnant women had one or greater symptoms, the remaining were asymptomatic.
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