{"id":248831,"date":"2026-07-21T22:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248831\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:27:15","slug":"maternal-fever-during-pregnancy-associated-with-higher-risk-of-adverse-birth-outcomes-according-to-new-review-led-by-ahn-maternal-fetal-medicine-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248831\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal Fever During Pregnancy Associated with Higher Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes, According to New Review led by AHN Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(File Photo of the Allegheny Health Network Logo)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Pittsburgh, PA) Fever is common during pregnancy, with\u00a0roughly 1\u00a0out of 5 patients reporting the occurrence sometime during their gestational period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, a new report which was published by Allegheny Health Network (AHN) maternal fetal medicine physician Peeraya Sawangkum, MD, in\u00a0Birth Defects Research Journal,\u00a0highlights that hyperthermia, especially in the first trimester, may be linked to a higher risk of birth defects and other complications for newborns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These findings showed that maternal fever is associated with an increased risk of congenital heart defects, craniofacial anomalies, fetal growth restriction, miscarriage, neural tube defects and neurodevelopmental disorders in children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This review also highlighted the links between maternal fever and pregnancy loss, fetal growth restriction, as well as other complications.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of the Allegheny Health Network Logo) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA) Fever is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-248831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}