Flu Vaccine During Pregnancy May Help Reduce the Risk of Premature Birth
Posted Jun 02 2011 5:31pm
A study published in this week’s PLoS Medicine suggests that maternal immunization with inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy may offer a protective effect and reduce the likelihood of prematurity and the baby being small for gestational age.
The study was led by Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, assistant professor global health, epidemiology and pediatrics, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and Emory University School of Medicine.
Omer and his colleagues used a large surveillance dataset from the Georgia Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System to analyze the relationship between receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine during any trimester of pregnancy by mothers of infants born between June 1, 2004 and September 30, 2006 and their baby being premature and small for gestational age. Researchers included 4,168 mother-baby pairs in the analysis.
A study published in this week’s PLoS Medicine suggests that maternal immunization with inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy may offer a protective effect and reduce the likelihood of prematurity and the baby being small for gestational age.
The study was led by Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, assistant professor global health, epidemiology and pediatrics, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and Emory University School of Medicine.
Omer and his colleagues used a large surveillance dataset from the Georgia Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System to analyze the relationship between receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine during any trimester of pregnancy by mothers of infants born between June 1, 2004 and September 30, 2006 and their baby being premature and small for gestational age. Researchers included 4,168 mother-baby pairs in the analysis.