New from CDC
Understanding and addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk has implications for maternal and child health outcomes. Heart age, the modeled age of an individual's cardiovascular system based on risk level, and excess heart age, the difference between a person's heart age and chronological age, are alternative simplified ways to communicate CVD risk. Among women with a recent live birth, this report predicted heart age, calculated prevalence of excess heart age (≥5 years), and examined factors associated with excess heart age.
CDC is collaborating with state, local, and territorial health departments and external partners to better understand COVID-19 during pregnancy. Health departments that are notified of COVID-19 cases in pregnant women may collect more information on these women using an optional module in addition to a case reporting form. Findings will be rapidly translated into updated clinical guidance for pregnant women and infants.
If You Are Pregnant, Breastfeeding, or Caring for Young ChildrenAlthough there are currently no data showing that COVID-19 affects pregnant people differently than others, we do know that pregnant people are at greater risk of getting sick from other respiratory viruses than people who are not pregnant.
New CDC study shows that half of U.S. newborn syphilis cases (congenital syphilis) in 2018 occurred due to gaps in testing and treatment during prenatal care. Nationally, the most common missed opportunities for preventing congenital syphilis cases occurred when mothers were diagnosed but not adequately treated for syphilis (31% of cases) or mothers did not have timely prenatal care (28% of cases).
This report assesses the contributions of the changing maternal age distribution and maternal age-specific infant mortality rates on overall and race and Hispanic origin-specific infant mortality rates in the United States from 2000 to 2017.
As of June 16, 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in 2,104,346 cases and 116,140 deaths in the United States. During pregnancy, women experience immunologic and physiologic changes that could increase their risk for more severe illness from respiratory infections.
