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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Bonnot 2003 |
France 1976 - 1997 case control |
European Institut of Genomutations (IEG), Lyon, France. | Infants with the studied congenital malformation. | Infants with a malformations other than this one studied. | The medical records are checked to obtain data on treatment intake and other exposures or risks. | 1st trimester | -9 / -9 | Total number of infants with a congenital malformation is 13703, but the number of cases changes according to the studied malformations. Raw data not sufficient to calculate OR (data for 'control' groups not available). | |
After having defined a population, often on geographical criteria, these networks set up birth observatories in order to exhaustively identify neonatal malformations in their reference population. | |||||||||
Sheehy 2019 |
Canada 1998 - 2015 nested case control |
A nested case-control study within the Quebec Pregnancy Cohort, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | Pregnancies ending with spontaneous abortion (pregnancy loss between between the beginning of the sixth week of gestation and the 19th completed week of gestation, excluding planned or induced abortions). | Pregnancies ending with live births (5 for each case) randomly selected at the index date and matched with the case pregnancy by gestational age and calendar year. | The Quebec Public Prescription Drug Insurance Plan database (drug name, start date, dose, and duration). | early pregnancy | 27149 / 134305 | ||
The data sources included the medical service database the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (diagnoses, medical procedures, ...) and the MedEcho database (in-hospital diagnoses and procedures, including gestational age for planned abortions, spontaneous abortions, and deliveries). |
Risk of bias: : NA; : low; : moderate; : serious; : critical; : unclear;