A More Complicated Pregnancy: Inflammatory Arthritis Increases the Risk for Adverse Outcomes

“Further analyses are necessary to look at other categories of arthritis affecting women of childbearing age, racial disparities in these populations, as well as the influence of disease activity in the later stages of pregnancy on other perinatal factors that may contribute to preterm delivery risk,” conclude the authors.

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Smith CJF, Forger F, Bandoli G, et al. Factors associated with preterm delivery among women with rheumatoid arthritis and women with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2019 Aug;71(8):1019–1027.