Pregnancy outcomes in
Italy during COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based cohort study.
Franca Rusconi,a Monia Puglia,bMartina Pacifici,b Sonia
Brescianini,c Luigi Gagliardi,a Anna
Maria Nannavecchia,d Pietro Buono,eSara Cantoira,f Sara Farchi,gMichele Gobbato,h Edda Pellegrini,iEnrica Perrone,j Riccardo Pertile,kElisa Eleonora Tavormina,l,m Laura Visonà Dalla
Pozza,n Francesca Zambri,o and the
AIE Perinatal Health Working Group
a Department of Mother and Child Health, Azienda USL
Toscana Nord Ovest, Pisa, Italy
b Unit of Epidemiology, Regional Health Agency of
Tuscany, Florence, Italy
c Center for Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health,
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
d Department of Epidemiology and Care Intelligence,
Regional Agency for Health and Social Affair of Puglia, Bari, Italy
e Department of Maternal and Child Health, General
Directorate for Health, Campania Region, Naples, Italy
f Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences,
University of Turin, Turin, Italy
g Area rete ospedaliera, Lazio Regional Authority,
Rome, Italy
h Pianificazione, Programmazione e Controllo
Direzionale, Azienda Regionale di Coordinamento della Salute, Udine,
Italy
i Welfare General Directorate, Lombardy Region, Milan,
Italy
j Unit of Primary Care, Regional Health Authority of
Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy
k Department of Clinical and Evaluative Epidemiology,
Health Service of Trento, Italy
l Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation,
National Research Council, Palermo, Italy
m Department of Health Activities and Epidemiological
Observatory, Regional Health Authority, Sicilian Region, Palermo, Italy
n Birth Registry, Coordinating Center for Rare
Diseases, Veneto Region, Padua, Italy
o National Centre for Diseases Prevention and Health
Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
and the AIE (Associazione Italiana di Epidemiologia)Perinatal Health Working
Group
Edoardo Corsi (Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of
Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; National Centre for Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome); Debora
Formisano (Unit of Clinical Governance, Azienda USL - IRCCS di Reggio
Emilia, Italy); Olivia Leoni (Welfare General Directorate, Lombardy
Region, Milan, Italy); Monica Mazzucato
(Birth Registry, Coordinating
Center for Rare Diseases, Veneto Region, Padua, Italy); Arianna Polo
(Area Rete Ospedaliera, Lazio Regional Authority, Rome, Italy);
Raffaella Rusciani (Department of Epidemiology, ASL TO3 Piedmont Region,
Turin, Italy); Alessandro Scoppa (Department of Maternal and Child
Health, General Directorate for Health, Campania Region, Naples, Italy)
Corresponding author
Franca Rusconi
Department of Mother and Child Health
Azienda USL Toscana Nord Ovest
Via Cocchi 7/9
56121 Pisa, Italy
e-mail:franca.rusconi@uslnordovest.toscana.it
Running title: COVID- 19 pandemic and pregnancy outcomes in Italy