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Obstructive sleep apnea and the risk of perinatal outcomes: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between obstructive sleep apnea and multiple adverse clinical outcomes: evidence from an umbrella review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Maternal sleep disordered breathing and offspring growth outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Sleep medicine reviews · 2024Pooled it
- An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational investigations of obstructive sleep apnea and health outcomes.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2022Pooled it
- The invisible costs of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA): Systematic review and cost-of-illness analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine Guidelines on Preoperative Screening and Assessment of Adult Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2016Guideline
- Association between obstructive sleep apnea and perinatal outcomes in a cohort of Japanese pregnant women: a prospective observational study.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2026Observational
- Associations of mental disorders with maternal health outcomes.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Association between sleep problems during pregnancy and postpartum depressive symptoms as well as condition of newborn at delivery.The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research · 2025Article
- Sleep disturbances in late pregnancy: associations with induction of labor.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2024Article
- Influencing factors of sleep quality in pregnant: a structural equation model approach.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Vision-based detection and quantification of maternal sleeping position in the third trimester of pregnancy in the home setting-Building the dataset and model.PLOS digital health · 2023Article
- Common sleep disorders in pregnancy: a review.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- The Impact of Intermittent Hypoxia on Metabolism and Cognition.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Poor sleep Quality and Obstructive Sleep Apnea are Associated with Maternal Mood, and Anxiety Disorders in Pregnancy.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Article
- Obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women.International anesthesiology clinics · 2022Article
- A feature of maternal sleep apnea during gestation causes autism-relevant neuronal and behavioral phenotypes in offspring.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Intermittent Hypoxia Upregulates theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy: Early Lessons From Our Sleep Pregnancy Clinic.WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin · 2021Article
- Sleep in Pregnancy and Maternal Hyperglycemia: a Narrative Review.Current diabetes reports · 2019Review
- Screening extremely obese pregnant women for obstructive sleep apnea.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Inconsistent information exists in the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and perinatal outcomes. This study was intended to investigate whether OSA in pregnant women has a potential to elevate the incidence of the maternal and neonatal outcomes by performing a meta-analysis of all available cohort studies. Five cohort studies including 977 participants were eligible for inclusion. The association between OSA and the risk of perinatal outcomes was expressed as relative risks (RR), with 95% confidence interval (CI). Our results revealed that OSA group was associated with more frequent preeclampsia (RR 1.96; 95% CI 1.34 to 2.86), preterm birth (RR 1.90; 95%CI 1.24 to 2.91), cesarean delivery (RR 1.87; 95% CI 1.52 to 2.29) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) (RR 2.65; 95% CI 1.86 to 3.76). On analyzing data for the prevalence of gestational diabetes and small gestational age (SGA) < 10th percentile (RR 1.40; 95% CI 0.62 to 3.19, and RR 0.64; 95%CI 0.33 to1.24, respectively), there were no significant differences in both group. Findings from this meta-analysis indicate that OSA in pregnant women significantly increases the incidence of maternal and neonatal outcomes, which is associated with more frequent preeclampsia, preterm birth, cesarean delivery and NICU admission.
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