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Triazolam

Exposed non-exposed studies (cohort)

Study	Country Study period	Population source	Exposure definition	Non-exposure definition	Sample size	Rmk
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 Triazolam 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 Triazolam 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.	750 / 2627913	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 Triazolam 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).	1299 / 3053381	Propensity scored adjusted for indications and led to an unexposed cohort with similar psychiatric conditions => considered as unexposed, sick control groups.

Case-control studies (cohort)

Study	Country Study period	Case	Control	Sample size	Rmk
Sheehy, 2019	Canada 1998 - 2015	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.	27149 / 134305

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