April 4 (UPI) —<\/span> People vaccinated against COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are not at increased risk for having babies with body or functional “anomalies,” or abnormalities, a study published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics found.<\/p>\n Of those who received a vaccine dose within 30 days of conception through 14 weeks of gestation, or pregnancy, 4.2% had evidence of fetal abnormalities that may affect life expectancy, health or functioning, the data showed.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Among those who received a vaccine dose during weeks two through 10 of gestation, 4% had fetal abnormalities such as heart defects or microcephaly, or a smaller-than-normal head, the researchers said.<\/p>\n For study participants who remained unvaccinated prior to conception and during the early stages of pregnancies, this figure was 4.4%, according to the researchers.\n<\/p>\n “Our findings suggest that COVID-19 vaccination during early pregnancy is not associated with an increased risk of fetal structural anomalies identified with [ultrasound],” researchers from Northwestern and Penn State universities wrote.<\/p>\n “Given the urgent need for safety data on COVID-19 vaccines, these preliminary findings may be useful when considering vaccination during early pregnancy,” they said.<\/p>\n Previous studies have found that the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech do not increase the risk for pregnancy complications, including preterm birth.\n<\/p>\n In addition, research suggests that pregnant people vaccinated against the virus pass immunity on to their unborn children.<\/p>\n Conversely, infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 during pregnancy has been shown to raise the risk for stillbirth, among other birth complications.<\/p>\n Up to 5% of births in the United States involve babies born structural defects that could affect future development and even be life-threatening, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n<\/p>\n For this study, Ruderman and her colleagues analyzed the electronic medical records for nearly 3,200 pregnant people, more than 2,600 of whom received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine between 30 days prior to conception and 14 weeks of gestation.<\/p>\n More than 1,100 of the people in the study were fully vaccinated against the virus, the researchers said.<\/p>\n They compared rates of fetal structural anomalies, as observed on sonogram, or ultrasound, among the unvaccinated and vaccinated participants, they said.<\/p>\n “Clinicians may use this evidence in counseling their patients on the safety of [COVID-19] vaccination,” the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 does not increase the risk for fetal abnormalities in pregnant people, according to a new study. File Photo by\u00a0John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo April 4 (UPI) — People vaccinated against COVID-19 before or during pregnancy are not at increased risk for having babies with body or functional “anomalies,” or abnormalities, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[7052,261,7053,176,445,425,28,510],"class_list":["post-1044743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-abnormalities","tag-covid19","tag-fetal","tag-finds","tag-increase","tag-risk","tag-study","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nGetting vaccinated against COVID-19 does not increase the risk for fetal abnormalities in pregnant people, according to a new study. File Photo by\u00a0John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n