ArticleSleep health2023
Adverse infant outcomes among women with sleep apnea or insomnia during pregnancy: A retrospective cohort study.
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- Fetal and neonatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by maternal sleep-disordered breathing: a systematic review.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Sleep During Pregnancy and Offspring Outcomes From Infancy to Childhood: A Systematic Review.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Feasibility and Acceptability of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Prenatal Sleep Classes for Poor Prenatal Sleep Quality: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Behavioral sleep medicineTrial
- Development and validation of machine learning models for obstructive sleep apnea risk stratification in high-risk pregnant women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Observational
- Sleep and fatigue complaints during pregnancy versus perinatal depression: Impact on toddler cognition.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Treating insomnia during pregnancy improves bedtime procrastination, rumination, anxiety, and positive affect: a randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based therapies for prenatal insomnia.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Heterogeneous effects of sleep and psychological health on pregnancy outcomes in donor insemination: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Ischemic Placental Disease and Severe Morbidity in Pregnant Patients With Sleep Disorders.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Comparison of longitudinal PSQI and actigraphy-assessed sleep from pregnancy to postpartum.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate whether sleep apnea or insomnia among pregnant people is associated with increased risk for adverse infant outcomes.
designRetrospective cohort study
settingCalifornia
participantsThe sample included singleton live births. Sleep apnea and insomnia were defined based on ICD-9 and -10 codes. A referent group was selected using exact propensity score matching on maternal characteristics, obstetric factors, and infant factors among individuals without a sleep disorder. MEASUREMENTS: Adverse infant outcomes were obtained from birth certificate, hospital discharge, and death records (eg, Apgar scores, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) stay, infant death, long birth stay, etc.). Logistic regression was used to calculate odds of an adverse infant outcome by sleep disorder type.
resultsPropensity-score matched controls were identified for 69.9% of the 3371 sleep apnea cases and 68.8% of the 3213 insomnia cases. Compared to the propensity-matched referent group, individuals with a diagnosis of sleep apnea (n = 2357) had infants who were more likely to have any adverse outcome, low 1-min Apgar scores, NICU stay, and an emergency room visit in the first year of life. Infants born to mothers with a diagnosis of insomnia (n = 2212) were at increased risk of few negative outcomes relative to the propensity matched referent group, with the exception of an emergency room visit.
conclusionsIn unadjusted analyses, infants born to individuals with a diagnosis of sleep apnea or insomnia were at increased risk of several adverse outcomes. These were attenuated when using propensity score matching, suggesting these associations were driven by other comorbidities.
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