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. 2021 Mar 1;137(3):405-407.
doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000004236.

Prematurity Rates During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Lockdown in Melbourne, Australia

Alexia Matheson  1 , Claire J McGannon, Atul Malhotra, Kirsten R Palmer, Alice E Stewart, Euan M Wallace, Ben W Mol, Ryan J Hodges, Daniel L Rolnik
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Prematurity Rates During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Lockdown in Melbourne, Australia

Alexia Matheson et al. Obstet Gynecol. .

Abstract

Low rates of preterm birth were observed during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown in Melbourne, Australia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial Disclosure Kirsten R. Palmer reports that money was paid to her institution from GlaxoSmithKline, the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, and the National Health & Medical Research Council. Ben W. Mol reports that he is supported by a NHMRC Investigator grant (GNT1176437), and has been a consultant for ObsEva, Merck, Merck KGaA, iGenomix and Guerbet. He has received research support from Merck and Guerbet. The other authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.

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Fig. 1.. Interrupted time-series analysis between January 2018 and September 2020. The blue and red circles represent the monthly rates of preterm birth at less than 37 weeks of gestation before and after July 2020, respectively. The blue and red squares represent the monthly rates of preterm birth at less than 28 weeks of gestation before and after July 2020, respectively. The shaded area represents the lockdown period (n=26,895, excluding 269 pregnancies that did not result in a liveborn neonate, P=.007 for the difference in trends of preterm birth at less than 37 weeks of gestation).
Matheson. Prematurity During Lockdown. Obstet Gynecol 2021.
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