title: Adverse maternal outcomes in women with asthma versus women without asthma.
abstract: The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to examine differences in adverse maternal outcomes between pregnant women with asthma and pregnant women without asthma. A total of 7,777 pregnant patients with asthma were abstracted from a national database. The comparison group was 31,108 women, randomly selected from 541,719 pregnant women without asthma. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship of asthma to 12 maternal outcome measures. Odds ratios were used to approximate the association of how much more likely pregnant women with asthma were to have adverse maternal outcomes. Pregnant women with asthma were more likely to have adverse maternal outcomes than did the pregnant women without asthma.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Governors State University, Oak Forest, IL 60466, USA. n-macmullen@govst.edu
authors.forename: Nancy J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Macmullen
authors.forename: Jay J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tymkow
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D015331:Cohort Studies; D015897:Comorbidity; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D017722:Hospital Charges / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016015:Logistic Models; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology