id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-287100-xkp8a9b9 López-Díaz, Álvaro COVID-19 Infection During Pregnancy and Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Offspring: Time for Collaborative Research 2020-10-31 .txt text/plain 1390 68 28 Cohorts of COVID-19-infected pregnant women may currently provide biological (e.g., umbilical cord and placenta samples) and clinical (e.g., maternal serum samples and neonatal filter paper blood samples) data that would enable the acquisition of very valuable genetic, metabolic, and immunological information. Such information would help determine the extent to which maternal infection, in addition to genetic vulnerability, contributes to an increased risk of neuropsychiatric disturbance in the offspring, and would improve our understanding of the role of immune-inflammatory mechanisms during pregnancy in the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders (10). Such populationbased birth cohort studies of SARS-CoV-2-infected pregnant women should involve detailed systematic clinical and biological examinations during pregnancy and delivery along with an extended follow-up of the offspring, including neurocognitive, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological examination. Large-scale and long-term prospective population-based birth cohort studies of COVID-19-infected and unaffected pregnant women are needed to unravel the complex interactions between maternal infection and risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring. ./cache/cord-287100-xkp8a9b9.txt ./txt/cord-287100-xkp8a9b9.txt