Open AccessA Prospective Study of Drugs and Pregnancy: I. Psychopharmaca
Author(s) -
Kullander Stig,
Källén Bengt
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016347609156779
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , miscarriage , obstetrics , abortion , prospective cohort study , first trimester , drug , gynecology , gestation , genetics , psychiatry , biology
. A prospective study has been performed on the use of psychopharmaca during 6376 pregnancies and its correlation to certain socio‐medical variables and pregnancy outcome. An association between drug use and later miscarriage or legal abortion was demonstrated and is conceivably due to an increased use of such drugs in unwanted pregnancies. No indication of an association between drug use and birth of a dead or defective infant was found. Pregnancies where psychopharmaca were used during the first trimester had, on average, a longer duration than pregnancies where such drugs were not used, but birth weight of full‐term infants was not affected.