Maternal exposures in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study: time trends of selected exposures

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• Alternative Title:
  Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol
• Personal Author:
  Dawson, April L. ; Razzaghi, Hilda ; Arth, Annelise ; Canfield, Mark A. ; Parker, Samantha E. ; Reefhuis, Jennita
• Description:
  Background ; Our objective was to describe time trends in selected pregnancy exposures in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS). ; Methods ; We analyzed data from the NBDPS, a multi-site case-control study of major birth defects, for mothers of live-born infants without birth defects (controls), with an expected date of delivery (EDD) from 1998 –2011. Mothers from the 10 participating centers across the United States were interviewed by phone between six weeks and two years after the EDD. We focused on maternal race/ethnicity and five maternal risk factors: obesity, use of folic acid-containing multivitamins, opioid analgesics, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and loratadine because of their prevalence of use and some reports of associations with major birth defects. Prevalence time trends were examined using the Kendall’s τβ test statistic. ; Results ; The exposure trend analysis included 11,724 control mothers with EDDs from 1998–2011. We observed a significant increase in obesity prevalence among control mothers, as well as use of SSRIs and loratadine. We also observed an increase in periconceptional use of folic acid-containing multivitamins. Some of the time trends varied by race/ethnicity. No remarkable trend in the overall use of opioid analgesics was observed. The racial/ethnic distribution of mothers changed slightly during the study period. ; Conclusions ; Long-term, population-based case-control studies continue to be an effective way to assess exposure-birth defects associations and provide guidance to health care providers. However, investigators examining rare outcomes covering many years of data collection need to be cognizant of time trends in exposures.
• Keywords:
  • Adult
  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Anti-Allergic Agents
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Congenital Abnormalities
  • Ethnicity
  • Female
  • Folic Acid
  • Humans
  • Loratadine
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• Source:
  Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 103(8):703-712
• Pubmed ID:
  25884728
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4617636
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  103
• Issue:
  8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/35296/cdc_35296_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.26 MB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha256:abcc207c0b67103dcfffb555d89f7082d510575f95162a5299616fc27dc8e403