Applied Nursing Research
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages e9-e13, February 2010

Adverse maternal outcomes in women with asthma versus women without asthma

  • Nancy J. MacMullen, PhD, APN/CNS

      Affiliations

    • Nursing Department, Governors State University, Oak Forest, IL 60466, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 708 534 4043 (w), +1 708 535 3410 (h); fax: +1 708 235 2197.
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  • Jay J. Shen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Public Health, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
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  • Catherine Tymkow, ND/APRN, WHNP

      Affiliations

    • Nursing Department, Governors State University, Flossmoor, IL 60422, USA

Received 6 August 2008; received in revised form 9 March 2009; accepted 24 March 2009. published online 10 July 2009.

Abstract 

The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to examine differences in adverse maternal outcomes between pregnant women with asthma and pregnant women without asthma. A total of 7,777 pregnant patients with asthma were abstracted from a national database. The comparison group was 31,108 women, randomly selected from 541,719 pregnant women without asthma. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship of asthma to 12 maternal outcome measures. Odds ratios were used to approximate the association of how much more likely pregnant women with asthma were to have adverse maternal outcomes. Pregnant women with asthma were more likely to have adverse maternal outcomes than did the pregnant women without asthma.

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PII: S0897-1897(09)00031-7

doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2009.03.004

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages e9-e13, February 2010

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