Association of Antidepressant Medication Use During Pregnancy With Intellectual Disability in Offspring.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Maternal antidepressant medication use during pregnancy has previously been associated with adverse outcomes in offspring, but to our knowledge, the association with intellectual disability (ID) has not been investigated.

Objectives

To examine the association of maternal antidepressant medication use during pregnancy with ID in offspring and investigate the importance of parental mental illness for such an association.

Design, setting, and participants

A population-based cohort study of 179 007 children born from January 1, 2006, through December 31, 2007, with complete parental information from national registers who were followed up from birth throughout 2014.

Main outcomes and measures

We estimated relative risks (RRs) and 95% CIs of ID in childre

SUBMITTER: Viktorin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710466 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature