Many pregnant women refuse to be vaccinated against Covid for fear of possible side effects on pregnancy, one of the most publicized – without scientific support – that could cause a miscarriage in the first weeks of pregnancy.
A new scientific study carried out by researchers from the University of Ottawa, and published in the scientific journal The New England Journal of Medicine comes to settle any doubt: there is no relationship between the application of the vaccine and the risk of abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Although at the beginning there were doubts due to the limited evidence about the vaccine in pregnant women, later it was seen that pregnant women are a vulnerable group since they can present serious complications in case of infection, and all pregnant women were asked to get vaccinated to protect themselves them and their babies.
Vaccinated women did not suffer a higher number of miscarriages
The scientists analyzed Norwegian national health records to compare the proportion of vaccinated women who experienced a miscarriage during the first trimester and of women who were still pregnant at the end of the first trimester.
In Norway, although vaccination during the first trimester is not recommended, except for women with underlying risk conditions, there are women who were vaccinated in the first trimester without even knowing that they were pregnant.
In total, 13,956 pregnant women were studied, of whom 5.5% had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca. Of the total, 4,521 of them suffered spontaneous abortions before the 14th week of gestation, which corresponds to a percentage of 5.1% of those who had received any of the immunization doses .
The results coincide with the expected range based on previous studies on spontaneous abortion in the absence of vaccination.
The data showed that there is no correlation between COVID-19 vaccines and the risk of miscarriage in the first trimester, providing further evidence for the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy.
” Our study found no evidence of an increased risk of miscarriage after COVID-19 vaccination , so this adds to the conclusions of other reports supporting COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy,” the study authors stated. .
The findings “are reassuring for women who were vaccinated early in pregnancy and support growing evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy is safe,” according to the researchers.
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