Substance use before or during pregnancy and the risk of child mortality, perinatal morbidities and congenital anomalies.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We aimed to investigate child mortality, perinatal morbidities and congenital anomalies born by women with substance misuse during or before pregnancy (DP or BP).

Methods

Taiwan Birth Registration from 2004 to 2014 linking Integrated Illicit Drug Databases used to include substance misuse participates. Children born by mothers convicted of substance misuse DP or BP were the substance-exposed cohort. Two substance-unexposed comparison cohorts were established: one comparison cohort selected newborns from the rest of the population on a ratio of 1:1 and exact matched by the child's gender, child's birth year, mother's birth year and child's first use of the health insurance card; another comparison cohort matched newborns from exposed and unexposed mothers by their propen

SUBMITTER: Lee CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10387448 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature