title: Socio-demographic characteristics of women sustaining injuries during pregnancy: a study from the Danish National Birth Cohort.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe adverse birth outcomes associated with hospital-treated injuries that took place among women in the Danish National Birth Cohort.
  
  
  METHODS
  Longitudinal cohort study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Denmark.
  
  
  METHODS
  90 452 women and their offspring selected from the Danish National Birth Cohort.
  
  
  METHODS
  To determine if injured women were more likely to deliver an infant preterm, with low birth weight, stillborn or have a spontaneous abortion, the authors estimated HRs. ORs were generated to assess APGAR scores and infants born small for gestational age (SGA). Models were adjusted for maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy, household socioeconomic status, eclampsia/pre-eclampsia or gestational diabetes status during pregnancy and maternal age at birth; estimates for preterm birth were also adjusted for prior history of preterm birth.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the cohort of 90 452 pregnant women, 3561 (3.9%) received medical treatment for an injury during pregnancy. Injured pregnant women were more likely to deliver infants that were stillborn or have pregnancies terminated by spontaneous abortion. The authors did not detect an adverse effect between injuries sustained during pregnancy and delivery of preterm, low birth weight or SGA infants, or infants with an APGAR score of <7.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study shows that injuries occurring among women from an unselected population may not have an adverse effect on birth weight, gestational age, APGAR score or SGA status but may adversely affect the risk of stillbirth and spontaneous abortions in some situations.
authors: Department of Epidemiology, Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, UK.
authors: Jasveer
authors: J
authors: Virk
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Hsu
authors: Jørn
authors: J
authors: Olsen