Associations of Maternal Use of Benzodiazepines or Benzodiazepine-like Hypnotics During Pregnancy With Immediate Pregnancy Outcomes in Norway.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding the safety profile of medications used in pregnancy is crucial for clinical decision-making. Few studies exist on the associations of exposure to benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-like hypnotic drugs (z-hypnotics) in pregnancy with pregnancy outcomes.

Objective

To determine whether exposure to benzodiazepines or z-hypnotics in pregnancy is associated with greater risk of negative immediate pregnancy outcomes compared with nonexposure.

Design, setting, and participants

This questionnaire-based cohort study used data from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child cohort study (MoBa), which also includes data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway. Pregnant women were recruited from all over Norway from 1999 and 2008. The first child was born in

SUBMITTER: Huitfeldt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7309438 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature