Impact of timing and severity of COVID-19 infection in pregnancy on intrauterine fetal growth- a registry-based study from Qatar.
Thomas FarrellFathima MinishaSalwa Abu YaqoubAbubaker Abdel RahimMai OmarHuda AhmedStephen LindowMerlin Rajam AbrahamMahmoud GassimNader Al-DewikShamsa AhmedHilal Al-Rifainull nullPublished in: PloS one (2023)
This study shows that women with symptomatic disease had lower birth centiles and birth weights. This was regardless of the gestational age at which they were infected. Early symptomatic disease seems to have an impact on fetal growth velocity; however, larger studies are needed to corroborate these findings.