Study | Country Study period |
Population source | Exposure definition | Non-exposure definition | Sample size | Rmk |
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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 Tofisopam 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). |
4804 / 3053381 | Propensity scored adjusted for indications and led to an unexposed cohort with similar psychiatric conditions => considered as unexposed, sick control groups. |
Study | Country Study period |
Case | Control | Sample size | Rmk |
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Eros, 2002 |
Hungary 1980 - 1996 |
Newborn infants with isolated congenital abnormality (CA) and multiple CA. Exclusions of some mild congenital abnormalities and minor congenital abnormality (methods in Czeizel 1999). | Two or three newborn infants without congenital anomalies matched to every case according to sex, birth week in the year when the case was born, and district of parents’ residence from the National Birth Registry of the Central Statistical Office. | 22865 / 38151 |