FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Cirrhosis May Make Pregnancy Riskier

Pregnant women with cirrhosis and their infants are more likely to experience complications after birth compared with pregnant women in the general population, according to research presented at the Digital International Liver Congress 2020.

In a retrospective study, researchers in Canada and the United States pooled data on more than 12,000 pregnant women in Ontario between 2000 and 2016. For every pregnant woman with cirrhosis, they included five pregnant women of a similar age and