Desvenlafaxine

Exposed non-exposed studies (cohort)

Study Country
Study period
Population source Exposure definition Non-exposure definition Sample size Rmk
Marks, 2021 USA
2010 - 2019
Women who received at least one antidepressant prescription 3 months prior to conception through delivery. Pregnant women with one (or more) prescription of Desvenlafaxine written during the time period studied. (This is a subgroup of exposure among the whole exposed group considered in the study). exposed to other treatment, sick
Pregnant women with one (or more) prescription of Bupropion written during the time period studied.
16 / 406 '252 women (6.8%) prescribed >1 antidepressant'=> considered as monotherapy.

Case-control studies (cohort)

Study Country
Study period
Case Control Sample size Rmk
Anderson, 2020 USA
1997 - 2011
The case infants were infants born alive or died at 20 SG or more and who had received a diagnosis of at least one selected birth defect. The controls were live-born infants with no major birth defects who were randomly selected from hospital or state birth-certificate records from the same geographic areas. 30630 / 11478 'Infants with recognized or strongly suspected chromosomal abnormalities or single-gene conditions were excluded from the study.'

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