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Lithium use in pregnancy associated with small risk of cardiac malformations
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30256
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , offspring , first trimester , lithium (medication) , congenital malformations , cohort , obstetrics , cohort study , pediatrics , fetus , genetics , biology
Use of lithium during the first trimester of pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of cardiac malformations in offspring, but this effect appears to be smaller than that seen in earlier research, results of a new U.S. cohort study suggest. The study was published in the June 8 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine .