• Ensiyeh Jenabi, Saeid Bashirian, Salman Khazaei, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Samereh Ghelichkhani, Firoozeh Goodarzi, and Mohammad Mirzaei.
• Autism Spectrum Disorders Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
• J. Matern. Fetal. Neonatal. Med. 2020 Dec 15: 1-3.

BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to investigate pregnancy outcomes among symptomatic and asymptomatic women infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the west of Iran.Materials And MethodsIn this case-control study, 45 pregnant women infected with symptomatic COVID-19 were compared with 45 pregnant women infected with asymptomatic COVID-19. The cases included women were referred for delivery to hospitals of Hamadan Province and infected with COVID-19-related symptoms. The diagnosis of COVID-19 was based on the results of real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction (rRT-PCR) detection. The control group included asymptomatic women who were referred for delivery to hospitals in Hamadan Province infected with COVID-19. Data were collected by a checklist. For the data analysis, the Stata version 12 was used (StataCorp, College Station, TX).ResultsThe odds of cesarean delivery in symptomatic women was more the fourfold higher (OR = 4.12, 95% CI (1.7, 10.05), p = .002). Moreover, the odds of LBW was significantly higher in symptomatic women (OR = 2.1, 95% CI (1.2, 6.29), p = .035).ConclusionsOur findings showed that cesarean delivery and LBW were significantly higher in symptomatic women compared with asymptomatic women. In areas with high COVID-19 pandemics, the performance of the PCR test is recommended for all pregnant women upon admission for delivery.

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