Placenta Accreta Spectrum and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Concerns Regarding the Difference in Length of Pregnancy
Placenta Accreta Spectrum and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Concerns Regarding the Difference in Length of Pregnancy
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植入性胎盘谱系与妊娠期高血压疾病:对妊娠时长差异的担忧
DOI:
10.1007/s43032-022-01043-5
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Kamiura Shoji
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作者:
Matsuzaki Shinya;Hayashida Harue;Kamiura Shoji
We read with great interest the article by Lingli et al., regarding the prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) among women with placenta accreta spectrum (PAS)[1]. This systematic review identified 4 studies (47,353 pregnant women; 4,283 women with HDP and 493 women with PAS) that examined and compared the rate of HDP prevalence between women with and without PAS. In the unadjusted pooled analysis (n= 4), women with PAS were less likely to develop HDP than those without PAS (odds ratio [OR], 0.59, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.38–0.94, P= 0.03). In addition, the investigators observed that women who developed HDP were less likely to have PAS compared to the women without PAS (OR 0.60, 95% CI 0.38–0.94, P= 0.03). Therefore, they suggested that a shorter length of pregnancy may lead to a low prevalence of HDP in women with PAS. Because hypertension might cause vascular endothelial injury and additionally affect placental implantation, the investigators considered that abnormal trophoblastic uterine invasion in women who developed HDP led to the low prevalence of PAS in women who developed HDP. The results of this study are interesting, and the discussion is useful for understanding the negative relationship between HDP and PAS. Nevertheless, some important confounding factors must be identified. Recently, we examined the population-based trends, characteristics, and surgical outcomes of women who underwent cesarean delivery (CD) for PAS using the National Inpatient Sample from October 2015 to December 2017 [2]. In this study, including 2,727,477 women who underwent CD during the study period, 8,030 (0.29%) were diagnosed with PAS. Among women with PAS, placenta accreta was the most common diagnosis (n= 6,205, 0.23%), followed by placenta percreta (n= 1,060, 0.04%) and increta (n= 765, 0.03%). The strength of this study is the number of included pregnant women; however, the following salient limitations need to be recognized:(i) only women who underwent CD were included;(ii) since the diagnoses of PAS and HDP were performed by using ICD-10 code, the accuracy of diagnosis is unknown; and (iii) the number of parity was unavailable. Considering some notable limitations, we believe that the results of our study are useful in examining the effect of PAS on the prevalence of HDP.In this study, patient characteristics per PAS were determined, and the prevalence rates of HDP were 14.2%(386,105/2,719,448) in women without PAS, 12.5%(775/6205) in women with placenta accreta, 8.5%(65/765) in women with placenta increta, and 7.5%(80/1060) in women with placenta percreta (Table 1). In a multinomial logistic regression model for analysis (not adjusted for gestational weeks), the adjusted odds ratios (aOR) of HDP were as follows: placenta accreta versus non-PAS (aOR 0.83, 95% CI 0.77–0.91), placenta increta versus non-PAS (aOR 0.43, 95% CI 0.32–0.57), and placenta percreta versus non-PAS (aOR 0.49, 95% CI 0.39–0.62). These results suggest that women with PAS were less likely to develop HDP than those without PAS, which is consistent with the results of a study by Lingli et al. However, although the length of pregnancy is an essential patient characteristic in the examination of HDP, both our study and the one by Lingli et al. did not exclude the difference in length of pregnancy between women with and without PAS as a confounding factor [1–3]. The results of our previous study are presented in Table 1. In our previous study, the median gestational weeks at delivery for women without PAS were 39 weeks (interquartile range [IQR] 38–39), women with …