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J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2014 Mar 4. [Epub ahead of print]
Influenza-like illness among Hong Kong Chinese pregnant women.
Wong VW1, Tarrant M.
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Abstract
Abstract We assessed the self-reported prevalence of influenza-like illness (ILI) during pregnancy in two samples of 546 and 2,764 new mothers who were pregnant during the 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11 peak influenza seasons. During pregnancy, 11% of participants experienced an ILI. Cough, sore throat and nasal congestion were the most common reported symptoms. Only 4.6% and 9% of participants in sample 1 and 2 had an underlying chronic illness respectively and 3.3% of mothers in both groups were smokers. Conducting regular surveillance on influenza prevalence during pregnancy is essential to evaluate the costs and benefits of influenza vaccination programmes.
PMID:
24588363
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24588363
Influenza-like illness among Hong Kong Chinese pregnant women.
Wong VW1, Tarrant M.
Author information
Abstract
Abstract We assessed the self-reported prevalence of influenza-like illness (ILI) during pregnancy in two samples of 546 and 2,764 new mothers who were pregnant during the 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11 peak influenza seasons. During pregnancy, 11% of participants experienced an ILI. Cough, sore throat and nasal congestion were the most common reported symptoms. Only 4.6% and 9% of participants in sample 1 and 2 had an underlying chronic illness respectively and 3.3% of mothers in both groups were smokers. Conducting regular surveillance on influenza prevalence during pregnancy is essential to evaluate the costs and benefits of influenza vaccination programmes.
PMID:
24588363
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24588363