Maternal Use of Specific Antidepressant Medications During Early Pregnancy and the Risk of Selected Birth Defects.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Antidepressants are commonly used during pregnancy, but limited information is available about individual antidepressants and specific birth defect risks.

Objective

To examine associations between individual antidepressants and specific birth defects with and without attempts to partially account for potential confounding by underlying conditions.

Design, setting, and participants

The population-based, multicenter case-control National Birth Defects Prevention Study (October 1997-December 2011) included cases with selected birth defects who were identified from surveillance systems; controls were randomly sampled live-born infants without major birth defects. Mothers of cases and controls participated in an interview after the expected delivery date. The da

SUBMITTER: Anderson KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7407327 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature