Study | Country Study period Study design |
Data source | Exposure definition | Non-exposure definition | Exposition period | Sample size (exposed/unexposed) Or (case / control) |
Remarks | Risk of bias |
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Study | Country Study period Study design |
Data source | Case | Control | Exposition | Exposition period | Sample size (exposed/unexposed) Or (case / control) |
Remarks | Risk of bias |
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Kazy - Metronidazole 2005 |
Hungary 1980 - 1996 case control |
The Hungarian Case-Control Surveillance of Congenital Abnormalities (HCCSCA). | Cases with congenital abnormalities (CAs) were selected from the Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry. | Controls were extracted from from the National Birth Registry of the Central Statistical Office. | The exposure data were obtained: (i) prospectively through antenatal care logbooks and other medical records; (ii) retrospectively by questionnaires completed by mothers; and (iii) by the help of regional nurses who visited and questioned all nonrespondent case and 200 control mothers. | 1st trimester, during pregnancy (anytime or not specified) | 22843 / 38151 | The Hungarian Case–Control Surveillance of Congenital Abnormalities was used 2 times to assess vaginal Metronidazole (Kazy 2005a; b): to avoid redundancy of cases and controls, only 1 was used => metronidazole alone (rather than in association). | |
Not specified. | |||||||||
Zarante 2009 |
Colombia 2001- 2006 case control |
The Institute of Human Genetics of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, an active member of the Latin-American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC) which is an international registry of congenital malformations . | All newborns and stillborns of weight >500 g that presented only one craniofacial malformation, not associated with any other congenital condition. | The next non-malformed same sex child born in the same hospital. | Information collected in 10 Colombian hospitals (NOS). | during pregnancy (anytime or not specified) | 374 / 728 | ||
Information collected in 10 Colombian hospitals (NOS). |
Risk of bias: : NA; : low; : moderate; : serious; : critical; : unclear;