Tag: Birth Defects: Misc.

Receipt of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during the first trimester not associated with an increased risk for selected major structural birth defects

Prospective parents experience increased depression, traumatic stress after detection of fetal anomalies

Little to no increased risk for nonlive birth seen among women continuing metformin and adding insulin versus switching to insulin monotherapy

No significant association seen for increased risk for MCMs with metformin in monotherapy, but association suggested for metformin in polytherapy

These racial differences need to be accounted for in prenatal open neural tube defect screening

Nonstatistically significant increase seen in prevalence of all birth defects collectively and in congenital heart disease

In base case analysis, 178 pregnancies were exposed to isotretinoin, with a doubling of the number per year during the study period

Buprenorphine associated with lower risk for malformations, cardiac malformations, oral clefts, and clubfoot

Increased risk seen of specific defects in offspring of adolescent and young adult women with a history of cancer

Increased risk seen for genitourinary abnormalities, especially after intracytoplasmic sperm injection