Study | Country Study period |
Population source | Exposure definition | Non-exposure definition | Sample size | Rmk |
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Källén, 2013 |
Swedish 1996 - 2011 |
Nearly all births in Sweden during the study period (1,575,847) are registered in The Swedish Medical Birth Register. | Infants whose mothers used flunitrazepam in early pregnancy. (This is a subgroup of exposure among the whole exposed group considered in the study). |
unexposed (general population or NOS)
Infants in population whose mothers used at least one of a central nervous system active drugs (less than 3%) or weren't exposed in early pregnancy. |
184 / 1575847 | Follow-up period known thanks to author's email reply. |
Meng a (Controls unexposed, sibling), 2023 |
Taiwan 2004 - 2018 |
All singleton pregnancies of females aged 15–50 years who gave birth during the study period. | Sibling with at least one Flunitrazepam prescription received by the mother during early pregnancy (the first 20 weeks of pregnancy). |
sibling
Discordant matched sibling without benzodiazepine or Z-hypnotic prescriptions from 30 days before the date of the estimated last menstrual period to the end of the 20th week of pregnancy. |
-9 / -9 | Number of exposures not provided (authors provided number of Exposure discordant pairs and number of Case discordant pairs). |
Meng a (Controls unexposed, sick), 2023 |
Taiwan 2004 - 2018 |
All singleton pregnancies of females aged 15–50 years who gave birth during the study period. | At least one Flunitrazepam prescription received by a mother during early pregnancy (the first 20 weeks of pregnancy). |
unexposed, sick
Pregnant women with no benzodiazepine or Z-hypnotic prescriptions from 30 days before the date of the estimated last menstrual period to the end of the 20th week of pregnancy. |
2612 / 2766866 | Use of results obtained with PS-FSW because more exposures, with a sick control group and sensitivity analyses (sibling control study, and paternal negative control design) that obtained similar results. |
Noh, 2022 |
South Korea 2011 - 2018 |
All pregnancies in women aged 20 to 45 years at delivery resulting in live births from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2018, in South Korea. | Pregnant women who filled at least Flunitrazepam prescription during the first trimester (first 90 days of pregnancy). |
unexposed, sick
Pregnant women who were not prescribed any benzodiazepine from 3 months before the last menstrual period to the end of the first trimester (with similar psychiatric conditions after propensity score). |
824 / 3053381 | Propensity scored adjusted for indications and led to an unexposed cohort with similar psychiatric conditions => considered as unexposed, sick control groups. |
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