TY - JOUR T1 - Increase of stillbirth and decrease of late preterm infants during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2020-320682 SP - fetalneonatal-2020-320682 AU - Mario De Curtis AU - Leonardo Villani AU - Arianna Polo Y1 - 2020/10/30 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/30/archdischild-2020-320682.abstract N2 - Italy was the first country in Europe violently affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The total lockdown of 3 months was necessary and effective to stem the infection. However, it has determined a series of effects that changed the life of millions of people. The objective of this retrospective study is to analyse some perinatal data during the lockdown and to compare them with the same months of 2019. The data refer to the Lazio region where Rome is located with 5.8 million people and where about 10% of Italian births take place every year.We obtained data from the Lazio hospital discharge database, which records perinatal information on all newborns. We have considered only singletons to limit the influence of other determinants of premature birth. The total numbers of all very preterm, late preterm, at term, late term, stillbirths, … ER -