TY - JOUR
T1 - Severe maternal morbidity and other perinatal complications among women with physical, sensory, or intellectual and developmental disabilities
AU - Horner-Johnson, Willi
AU - Garg, Bharti
AU - Darney, Blair G.
AU - Biel, Frances M.
AU - Caughey, Aaron B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under award #R21HD081309. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Additional support for Dr. Horner‐Johnson's time was provided by grant #K12HS022981 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and by the Institute on Development & Disability at Oregon Health & Science University. The funding agencies had no involvement in study design, data analysis or interpretation
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PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Background: Little is known about severe maternal morbidity (SMM) among women with disabilities. Objective: We assessed differences in SMM and other perinatal complications by presence and type of disability. We hypothesised that SMM and other complications would be more common in births to women with disabilities than to women without disabilities. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of California births from 2000 to 2012, using birth and death certificate data linked with hospital discharge data. We included singleton deliveries with gestational age of 23–42 weeks. We classified women as having any disability or not and identified disability type (physical, hearing, vision, intellectual/developmental disabilities [IDD]). Our primary outcome was a composite indicator of SMM. Secondary outcomes included additional perinatal complications: gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, venous thromboembolism, chorioamnionitis, puerperal endometritis and mental health disorders complicating pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium. We used modified Poisson regression to obtain covariate-adjusted relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association of disability status and type with SMM and secondary outcomes. Results: Of 5,787,090 deliveries, 33,044 (0.6%) were to women with disabilities. Of these, 311 per 10,000 were complicated by SMM, compared with 84 per 10,000 deliveries to women without disabilities. In multivariable analyses, risk of SMM for births to women with disabilities was nearly three times that for women without disabilities (RR 2.84, 95% CI 2.67, 3.02). Proportion and risk of SMM were greatest for vision disability (793 per 10,000; RR 4.04, 95% CI 3.41, 4.78). Secondary outcomes were also more common among women with disabilities. In particular, more than a third of births to women with IDD (37.4%) were complicated by mental health disorders (versus 2.2% for women without disabilities). Conclusion: As hypothesised, SMM and other perinatal complications were more common among women with disabilities than among women without disabilities.
AB - Background: Little is known about severe maternal morbidity (SMM) among women with disabilities. Objective: We assessed differences in SMM and other perinatal complications by presence and type of disability. We hypothesised that SMM and other complications would be more common in births to women with disabilities than to women without disabilities. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of California births from 2000 to 2012, using birth and death certificate data linked with hospital discharge data. We included singleton deliveries with gestational age of 23–42 weeks. We classified women as having any disability or not and identified disability type (physical, hearing, vision, intellectual/developmental disabilities [IDD]). Our primary outcome was a composite indicator of SMM. Secondary outcomes included additional perinatal complications: gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, venous thromboembolism, chorioamnionitis, puerperal endometritis and mental health disorders complicating pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium. We used modified Poisson regression to obtain covariate-adjusted relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association of disability status and type with SMM and secondary outcomes. Results: Of 5,787,090 deliveries, 33,044 (0.6%) were to women with disabilities. Of these, 311 per 10,000 were complicated by SMM, compared with 84 per 10,000 deliveries to women without disabilities. In multivariable analyses, risk of SMM for births to women with disabilities was nearly three times that for women without disabilities (RR 2.84, 95% CI 2.67, 3.02). Proportion and risk of SMM were greatest for vision disability (793 per 10,000; RR 4.04, 95% CI 3.41, 4.78). Secondary outcomes were also more common among women with disabilities. In particular, more than a third of births to women with IDD (37.4%) were complicated by mental health disorders (versus 2.2% for women without disabilities). Conclusion: As hypothesised, SMM and other perinatal complications were more common among women with disabilities than among women without disabilities.
KW - disabled persons
KW - intellectual disability
KW - morbidity
KW - persons with hearing impairments
KW - pregnancy complications
KW - visually impaired persons
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U2 - 10.1111/ppe.12873
DO - 10.1111/ppe.12873
M3 - Article
C2 - 35437812
AN - SCOPUS:85128309912
SN - 0269-5022
VL - 36
SP - 759
EP - 768
JO - Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
JF - Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
IS - 5
ER -