Key result
Spinal cord injury in women is linked to more complicated pregnancies and smaller newborns.
Why the study?
Does spinal cord injury increase the risk of complicated pregnancy, labor, and delivery outcomes in women?
Does spinal cord injury increase the risk of complicated pregnancy, labor, and delivery outcomes in women?
Women with spinal cord injury experience more complicated pregnancies and deliver smaller newborns with smaller head circumferences compared to those without SCI.
Women with SCI tend to have more complicated courses of pregnancy, labor and delivery and smaller newborns than non-SCI peers. Neonatal head circumference is significantly smaller.
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McLain et al. (2022) studied this question. Women with spinal cord injury have more complicated pregnancies, labor, and deliveries, and deliver smaller newborns with significantly smaller head circumferences than non-SCI peers.
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