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This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/." /> <meta name="DC.AccessRights" content="open-access" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" content="10.1136/bmj.e7085" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" content="10.1136/bmj.h2260" /> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Objective To evaluate maternal medical and perinatal outcomes associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy. Design High dimensional propensity score (HDPS) matched cohort study. Setting Multiple linked population health administrative databases in the entire province of Ontario, Canada. Participants Among women who delivered a singleton infant between 2003 and 2012, and who were eligible for provincially funded drug coverage, those with ≥2 consecutive prescriptions for an antipsychotic medication during pregnancy, at least one of which was filled in the first or second trimester, were selected. Of these antipsychotic drug users, 1021 were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a HDPS algorithm. Main outcome measures The main maternal medical outcomes were gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and venous thromboembolism. The main perinatal outcomes were preterm birth (<37 weeks), and a birth weight <3rd or >97th centile. Conditional Poisson regression analysis was used to generate rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals, adjusting for additionally prescribed non-antipsychotic psychotropic medications. Results Compared with non-users, women prescribed an antipsychotic medication in pregnancy did not seem to be at higher risk of gestational diabetes (rate ratio 1.10 (95% CI 0.77 to 1.57)), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (1.12 (0.70 to 1.78)), or venous thromboembolism (0.95 (0.40 to 2.27)). The preterm birth rate, though high among antipsychotic users (14.5%) and matched non-users (14.3%), was not relatively different (rate ratio 0.99 (0.78 to 1.26)). Neither birth weight <3rd centile or >97th centile was associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy (rate ratios 1.21 (0.81 to 1.82) and 1.26 (0.69 to 2.29) respectively). Conclusions Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy had minimal evident impact on important maternal medical and short term perinatal outcomes. However, the rate of adverse outcomes is high enough to warrant careful assessment of maternal and fetal wellbeing among women prescribed an antipsychotic drug in pregnancy." /> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Simone N Vigod" /> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Tara Gomes" /> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Andrew S Wilton" /> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Valerie H Taylor" /> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Joel G Ray" /> <meta name="article:published_time" content="2015-05-13" /> <meta name="article:section" content="Research" /> <meta name="citation_title" content="Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy: high dimensional, propensity matched, population based cohort study" /> <meta name="citation_abstract" lang="en" content="<p><b>Objective</b> To evaluate maternal medical and perinatal outcomes associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy.</p><p><b>Design</b> High dimensional propensity score (HDPS) matched cohort study.</p><p><b>Setting</b> Multiple linked population health administrative databases in the entire province of Ontario, Canada.</p><p><b>Participants</b> Among women who delivered a singleton infant between 2003 and 2012, and who were eligible for provincially funded drug coverage, those with ≥2 consecutive prescriptions for an antipsychotic medication during pregnancy, at least one of which was filled in the first or second trimester, were selected. Of these antipsychotic drug users, 1021 were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a HDPS algorithm.</p><p><b>Main outcome measures</b> The main maternal medical outcomes were gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and venous thromboembolism. The main perinatal outcomes were preterm birth (&lt;37 weeks), and a birth weight &lt;3rd or &gt;97th centile. Conditional Poisson regression analysis was used to generate rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals, adjusting for additionally prescribed non-antipsychotic psychotropic medications.</p><p><b>Results</b> Compared with non-users, women prescribed an antipsychotic medication in pregnancy did not seem to be at higher risk of gestational diabetes (rate ratio 1.10 (95% CI 0.77 to 1.57)), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (1.12 (0.70 to 1.78)), or venous thromboembolism (0.95 (0.40 to 2.27)). The preterm birth rate, though high among antipsychotic users (14.5%) and matched non-users (14.3%), was not relatively different (rate ratio 0.99 (0.78 to 1.26)). Neither birth weight &lt;3rd centile or &gt;97th centile was associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy (rate ratios 1.21 (0.81 to 1.82) and 1.26 (0.69 to 2.29) respectively).</p><p><b>Conclusions</b> Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy had minimal evident impact on important maternal medical and short term perinatal outcomes. However, the rate of adverse outcomes is high enough to warrant careful assessment of maternal and fetal wellbeing among women prescribed an antipsychotic drug in pregnancy.</p>" /> <meta name="citation_journal_title" content="BMJ" /> <meta name="citation_publisher" content="British Medical Journal Publishing Group" /> <meta name="citation_publication_date" content="2015/05/13" /> <meta name="citation_mjid" content="bmj;350/may11_5/h2298" /> <meta name="citation_id" content="350/may11_5/h2298" /> <meta name="citation_public_url" content="https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2298" /> <meta name="citation_abstract_html_url" content="https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2298.abstract" /> <meta name="citation_full_html_url" content="https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2298.full" /> <meta name="citation_pdf_url" content="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298.full.pdf" /> <meta name="citation_issn" content="1756-1833" /> <meta name="citation_journal_abbrev" content="BMJ" /> <meta name="citation_doi" content="10.1136/bmj.h2298" /> <meta name="citation_pmid" content="25972273" /> <meta name="citation_volume" content="350" /> <meta name="citation_article_type" content="Research Article" /> <meta name="citation_section" content="Research" /> <meta name="citation_access" content="all" /> <meta name="citation_author" content="Simone N Vigod" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Women’s College Research Institute; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1B2, Canada" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Department of Psychiatry, Women’s College Hospital; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario" /> <meta name="citation_author" content="Tara Gomes" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5" /> <meta name="citation_author" content="Andrew S Wilton" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5" /> <meta name="citation_author" content="Valerie H Taylor" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Women’s College Research Institute; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1B2, Canada" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Department of Psychiatry, Women’s College Hospital; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario" /> <meta name="citation_author" content="Joel G Ray" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5" /> <meta name="citation_author_institution" content="Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8" /> <meta name="citation_reference" content="citation_journal_title=Arch Womens Ment Health;citation_pages=149;citation_volume=16;citation_year=2013;citation_pmid=23389622;citation_doi=10.1007/s00737-013-0330-6" /> <meta name="citation_reference" content="citation_journal_title=Schizophrenia research;citation_journal_abbrev=Schizophr Res;citation_title=Temporal trends in general and age-specific fertility rates among women with schizophrenia (1996-2009): a population-based study in Ontario, Canada.;citation_pages=169-175;citation_volume=139;citation_year=2012;citation_issue=1-3;citation_pmid=22658526;citation_doi=10.1016/j.schres.2012.05.010" /> <meta name="citation_reference" content="citation_journal_title=Bipolar Disord;citation_pages=1;citation_volume=15;citation_year=2013;citation_doi=10.1111/bdi.12025" /> <meta name="citation_reference" content="citation_journal_title=J Affect Disord;citation_pages=S1;citation_volume=117;citation_year=2009;citation_pmid=19682750;citation_doi=10.1016/j.jad.2009.06.043" /> <meta name="citation_reference" content="citation_journal_title=American Journal of Psychiatry;citation_journal_abbrev=Am. 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Design High dimensional propensity score (HDPS) matched cohort study. Setting Multiple linked population health administrative databases in the entire province of Ontario, Canada. Participants Among women who delivered a singleton infant between 2003 and 2012, and who were eligible for provincially funded drug coverage, those with ≥2 consecutive prescriptions for an antipsychotic medication during pregnancy, at least one of which was filled in the first or second trimester, were selected. Of these antipsychotic drug users, 1021 were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a HDPS algorithm. Main outcome measures The main maternal medical outcomes were gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and venous thromboembolism. The main perinatal outcomes were preterm birth (<37 weeks), and a birth weight <3rd or >97th centile. Conditional Poisson regression analysis was used to generate rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals, adjusting for additionally prescribed non-antipsychotic psychotropic medications. Results Compared with non-users, women prescribed an antipsychotic medication in pregnancy did not seem to be at higher risk of gestational diabetes (rate ratio 1.10 (95% CI 0.77 to 1.57)), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (1.12 (0.70 to 1.78)), or venous thromboembolism (0.95 (0.40 to 2.27)). The preterm birth rate, though high among antipsychotic users (14.5%) and matched non-users (14.3%), was not relatively different (rate ratio 0.99 (0.78 to 1.26)). Neither birth weight <3rd centile or >97th centile was associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy (rate ratios 1.21 (0.81 to 1.82) and 1.26 (0.69 to 2.29) respectively). Conclusions Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy had minimal evident impact on important maternal medical and short term perinatal outcomes. However, the rate of adverse outcomes is high enough to warrant careful assessment of maternal and fetal wellbeing among women prescribed an antipsychotic drug in pregnancy." /> <meta name="og-title" property="og:title" content="Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy: high dimensional, propensity matched, population based cohort study" /> <meta name="og-url" property="og:url" content="https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2298" /> <meta name="og-site-name" property="og:site_name" content="The BMJ" /> <meta name="og-description" property="og:description" content="Objective To evaluate maternal medical and perinatal outcomes associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy. Design High dimensional propensity score (HDPS) matched cohort study. Setting Multiple linked population health administrative databases in the entire province of Ontario, Canada. Participants Among women who delivered a singleton infant between 2003 and 2012, and who were eligible for provincially funded drug coverage, those with ≥2 consecutive prescriptions for an antipsychotic medication during pregnancy, at least one of which was filled in the first or second trimester, were selected. Of these antipsychotic drug users, 1021 were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a HDPS algorithm. Main outcome measures The main maternal medical outcomes were gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and venous thromboembolism. The main perinatal outcomes were preterm birth (<37 weeks), and a birth weight <3rd or >97th centile. Conditional Poisson regression analysis was used to generate rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals, adjusting for additionally prescribed non-antipsychotic psychotropic medications. Results Compared with non-users, women prescribed an antipsychotic medication in pregnancy did not seem to be at higher risk of gestational diabetes (rate ratio 1.10 (95% CI 0.77 to 1.57)), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (1.12 (0.70 to 1.78)), or venous thromboembolism (0.95 (0.40 to 2.27)). The preterm birth rate, though high among antipsychotic users (14.5%) and matched non-users (14.3%), was not relatively different (rate ratio 0.99 (0.78 to 1.26)). Neither birth weight <3rd centile or >97th centile was associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy (rate ratios 1.21 (0.81 to 1.82) and 1.26 (0.69 to 2.29) respectively). Conclusions Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy had minimal evident impact on important maternal medical and short term perinatal outcomes. 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id="contrib-1"><span class="name">Simone N Vigod</span><span class="contrib-role">, scientist; assistant professor</span><a id="xref-aff-1-1" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-1">1</a><a id="xref-aff-2-1" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-2">2</a><a id="xref-aff-3-1" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-3">3</a>, </li><li class="contributor" id="contrib-2"><span class="name">Tara Gomes</span><span class="contrib-role">, scientist</span><a id="xref-aff-2-2" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-2">2</a>, </li><li class="contributor" id="contrib-3"><span class="name">Andrew S Wilton</span><span class="contrib-role">, analyst</span><a id="xref-aff-2-3" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-2">2</a>, </li><li class="contributor" id="contrib-4"><span class="name">Valerie H Taylor</span><span class="contrib-role">, psychiatrist-in-chief; associate professor</span><a id="xref-aff-1-2" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-1">1</a><a id="xref-aff-3-2" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-3">3</a>, </li><li class="last" id="contrib-5"><span class="name">Joel G Ray</span><span class="contrib-role">, professor</span><a id="xref-aff-2-4" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-2">2</a><a id="xref-aff-4-1" class="xref-aff" href="#aff-4">4</a></li></ol><ol class="affiliation-list"><li class="aff"><a id="aff-1" name="aff-1"></a><address><sup>1</sup>Women’s College Research Institute; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1B2, Canada</address></li><li class="aff"><a id="aff-2" name="aff-2"></a><address><sup>2</sup>Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5</address></li><li class="aff"><a id="aff-3" name="aff-3"></a><address><sup>3</sup>Department of Psychiatry, Women’s College Hospital; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario</address></li><li class="aff"><a id="aff-4" name="aff-4"></a><address><sup>4</sup>Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8</address></li></ol><ol class="corresp-list"><li class="corresp" id="corresp-1">Correspondence to: S N Vigod <span class="em-link"><span class="em-addr">simone.vigod{at}wchospital.ca</span></span></li></ol><ul class="history-list"><li xmlns:hwp="http://schema.highwire.org/Journal" class="accepted" hwp:start="2015-03-22"><span class="accepted-label">Accepted </span>22 March 2015</li></ul></div><div class="section abstract" id="abstract-1"><h2>Abstract</h2> <p id="p-2"><strong>Objective</strong> To evaluate maternal medical and perinatal outcomes associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy.</p> <p id="p-3"><strong>Design</strong> High dimensional propensity score (HDPS) matched cohort study.</p> <p id="p-4"><strong>Setting</strong> Multiple linked population health administrative databases in the entire province of Ontario, Canada.</p> <p id="p-5"><strong>Participants</strong> Among women who delivered a singleton infant between 2003 and 2012, and who were eligible for provincially funded drug coverage, those with ≥2 consecutive prescriptions for an antipsychotic medication during pregnancy, at least one of which was filled in the first or second trimester, were selected. Of these antipsychotic drug users, 1021 were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a HDPS algorithm.</p> <p id="p-6"><strong>Main outcome measures</strong> The main maternal medical outcomes were gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and venous thromboembolism. The main perinatal outcomes were preterm birth (<37 weeks), and a birth weight <3rd or >97th centile. Conditional Poisson regression analysis was used to generate rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals, adjusting for additionally prescribed non-antipsychotic psychotropic medications.</p> <p id="p-7"><strong>Results</strong> Compared with non-users, women prescribed an antipsychotic medication in pregnancy did not seem to be at higher risk of gestational diabetes (rate ratio 1.10 (95% CI 0.77 to 1.57)), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (1.12 (0.70 to 1.78)), or venous thromboembolism (0.95 (0.40 to 2.27)). The preterm birth rate, though high among antipsychotic users (14.5%) and matched non-users (14.3%), was not relatively different (rate ratio 0.99 (0.78 to 1.26)). Neither birth weight <3rd centile or >97th centile was associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy (rate ratios 1.21 (0.81 to 1.82) and 1.26 (0.69 to 2.29) respectively).</p> <p id="p-8"><strong>Conclusions</strong> Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy had minimal evident impact on important maternal medical and short term perinatal outcomes. However, the rate of adverse outcomes is high enough to warrant careful assessment of maternal and fetal wellbeing among women prescribed an antipsychotic drug in pregnancy.</p> </div><div class="section intro" id="sec-1"> <h2 class="">Introduction</h2> <p id="p-9">There has been a considerable rise in antipsychotic medication use in pregnancy, from 3 per 1000 pregnancies in 2001 to 8 per 1000 in 2007.<a id="xref-ref-1-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-1">1</a> Explanations for this include higher conception rates among women with psychotic disorders<a id="xref-ref-2-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-2">2</a> and greater use of atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of bipolar and major depressive disorder.<a id="xref-ref-3-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-3">3</a> <a id="xref-ref-4-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-4">4</a> Decisions about the use of antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy are not straightforward, however. It is recognised that a woman with serious mental illness who discontinues her medication in pregnancy, out concern for fetal harm, may jeopardise her own mental health and her ability to care for her child after delivery.<a id="xref-ref-5-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-5">5</a> Yet, there is little information about the use of antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy, especially second generation (“atypical”) antipsychotic drugs.</p> <div class="media video-content" id="media-1"><div class="player-container"><video class="video-js" data-video-id="4336491773001" data-account="2696240571001" data-player="4JJk0etnl" data-embed="default" data-application-id-class="video-js" controls="true" id="brightcove-video" height="100%" width="100%"></video></div><div class="media-caption"><span class="media-label"></span> </div></div> <p id="p-10">Case reports, case series, voluntary registries, and small cohort studies suggest that antipsychotic drug exposure in pregnancy is unlikely to cause congenital anomalies but may be associated with preterm birth, low birth weight for gestational age, and neonatal withdrawal effects.<a id="xref-ref-6-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-6">6</a> However, most data were based on the older, “typical” antipsychotic drugs, which are now less commonly used. Second generation antipsychotic drugs were first introduced in the early 1990s and differ from earlier agents in terms of their side effects, especially their potentially higher risk of metabolic syndrome and venous thromboembolism.<a id="xref-ref-7-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-7">7</a> <a id="xref-ref-8-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-8">8</a> The few studies that have evaluated atypical antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy were limited in sample size, and in the handling of confounding by indication.<a id="xref-ref-9-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-9">9</a> Accordingly, these studies may not have been equipped to evaluate the impact of antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy on important maternal medical and perinatal conditions.</p> <p id="p-11">The objective of the current study was to evaluate common maternal medical conditions that are magnified by pregnancy<a id="xref-ref-10-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-10">10</a> and that are also associated with antipsychotic drug use.<a id="xref-ref-7-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-7">7</a> <a id="xref-ref-8-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-8">8</a> We also evaluated important perinatal outcomes in relation to maternal antipsychotic medication use in pregnancy. We used a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) matched cohort study design to account for observed and unobserved confounding factors that might explain the association between antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy and important maternal and perinatal outcomes.</p> </div><div class="section methods" id="sec-2"> <h2 class="">Methods</h2> <div id="sec-3" class="subsection"> <h3>Setting</h3> <p id="p-12">We conducted a population based cohort study in Ontario, Canada, using health administrative data among women eligible for public drug coverage who had been hospitalised for obstetrical delivery of a live born or stillborn infant between 1 April 2003 and 31 December 2012. These women had universal access to hospital care, physician services, and drug coverage. The study received ethical approval from the research ethics boards at Women’s College Hospital (2012-0288-A) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (ICES project number 2013 0900 343 000) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.</p> </div> <div id="sec-4" class="subsection"> <h3>Data sources</h3> <p id="p-13">Multiple linked population health administrative databases housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Toronto, Ontario, were used for this analysis. Obstetric deliveries were identified using ICES’ MOMBABY datafile. This validated datafile comprises all in-hospital deliveries in Ontario, with 98% successful linkage of maternal and newborn health records. Exposure to antipsychotic drugs and other medications were identified using the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) database, which records prescription medication use for those receiving full drug benefits under the provincial drug programme with an error rate of <1%.<a id="xref-ref-11-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-11">11</a> Eligibility for drug coverage includes unemployment, disability, high prescription drug costs relative to net household income, and receipt of home care services. Approximately 70% of pregnant women with a psychotic disorder receive ODB coverage (source: ICES, unpublished).</p> <p id="p-14">Participant demographic information was obtained from the Registered Persons Database (RPDB) that consists of date of birth, sex, postal code, and death date (where applicable). Other data sources were </p> <ul class="list-unord " id="list-1"><li id="list-item-1"> <p id="p-15">Canadian Institutes of Health Information Discharge Abstract Database (CIHI-DAD), to which all hospitals in Ontario submit demographic and clinical information about all hospital admissions and discharges using standard diagnostic ICD-10-CA codes (international classification of diseases, 10th revision, Canadian version) and procedural or interventional CCI codes (Canadian Classification of Health Interventions)<a id="xref-ref-12-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-12">12</a></p> </li><li id="list-item-2"> <p id="p-16">Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), which contains mental health clinical and administrative data on adult patients from 2005 onward, collected in all facilities in the province of Ontario with designated inpatient mental health beds.<a id="xref-ref-13-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-13">13</a> <a id="xref-ref-14-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-14">14</a> Before 2005, these data were reported to the CIHI-DAD</p> </li><li id="list-item-3"> <p id="p-17">National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), which covers emergency department visits, day surgery, and mandated outpatient clinics</p> </li><li id="list-item-4"> <p id="p-18">Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) database, which collects outpatient physician service information from Ontario physicians who are reimbursed after submitting claims to OHIP for each service provided. </p> </li></ul> <p id="p-19">Patient level records in all of the above data sources are anonymously linked by a unique identifier number derived from the health card number of every resident of Ontario.</p> <p id="p-20">We used validated algorithms from hospital (CIHI-DAD) and outpatient fee claims (OHIP database) to identify pre-pregnancy diabetes (sensitivity 0.86, specificity 0.97)<a id="xref-ref-15-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-15">15</a> and chronic hypertension (sensitivity 0.72, specificity 0.95).<a id="xref-ref-16-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-16">16</a> Pre-pregnancy medical comorbidity was measured using the John’s Hopkins Collapsed Aggregated Diagnosis Group resource utilisation bands (RUB), which classifies individuals into mutually exclusive groups, ranging from those who never use the medical system to high frequency users.<a id="xref-ref-17-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-17">17</a> We also used CIHI-DAD and OHIP data to identify pre-pregnancy mental health and addiction service use and diagnoses as well as antenatal care use (including prenatal ultrasonography),<a id="xref-ref-18-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-18">18</a> <a id="xref-ref-19-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-19">19</a> and the ODB for medications prescribed before and during the index pregnancy.</p> </div> <div id="sec-5" class="subsection"> <h3>Participants</h3> <p id="p-21">We considered all women who delivered a singleton infant (live birth or stillbirth) in Ontario during the study period. To ensure that all participants were covered under the provincial drug plan during the index pregnancy, we only included those who had filled a provincially funded drug prescription within 180 days before pregnancy and one during pregnancy or within 180 days of delivery.<a id="xref-ref-20-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-20">20</a></p> </div> <div id="sec-6" class="subsection"> <h3>Exposure groups</h3> <p id="p-22">Antipsychotic medication exposure was defined as at least two consecutive prescriptions for an antipsychotic drug filled between the conception date (estimated using the gestational age at birth) and the delivery date. We required that at least one of these prescriptions was filled prior to 27 weeks gestation, corresponding to the first or second trimester of pregnancy. Prescriptions were deemed to be “consecutive” if the second prescription was filled within 1.5 times the number of days’ supply of the first prescription. For example, if the first prescription was for 30 days’ supply, then the second prescription had to be filled within 1.5×30 days (45 days) thereafter for it to be deemed consecutive. The antipsychotic drugs that were available through the provincial drug plan in the period of study are listed in the supplementary table S1.</p> <p id="p-23">To minimise treatment selection bias, we matched women in the antipsychotic medication group to women not exposed to any antipsychotic drug during pregnancy using a HDPS matching algorithm.<a id="xref-ref-21-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-21">21</a> While multivariable modelling and traditional propensity score analyses attempt to address treatment selection bias, they rely on observed confounders. The HDPS algorithm attempts to further minimise residual confounding by indication by also incorporating proxy (or surrogate) variables—healthcare diagnoses, procedures, and drug claims—which, when combined, collectively behave as a good overall proxy for important unobserved confounders. In typical pharmaco-epidemiological studies, HPDS methods result in less biased estimates of treatment effects when benchmarked against those from randomised controlled trials.<a id="xref-ref-21-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-21">21</a></p> <p id="p-24">In this study, a HDPS algorithm was used to generate propensity scores for all patients in the original cohort.<a id="xref-ref-21-3" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-21">21</a> The data dimensions used were those traditionally available within health claims databases, and included our aforementioned data sources for hospital (CIHI-DAD, OMHRS), emergency department (NACRS), and physician billing claim (OHIP) diagnoses and procedures, as well as for prescription drug claims (ODB). Specifically, we included eight data dimensions in the algorithm, as follows: all prescription drug claims <365 days before cohort entry (1 dimension, ODB); hospitalisation and emergency department diagnoses and procedures <365 days before cohort entry (5 dimensions, CIHI-DAD diagnoses and procedures, OMHRS diagnoses, NACRS diagnoses and procedures); and physician service diagnosis and fee codes <365 days before cohort entry (2 dimensions, OHIP diagnoses and OHIP fee codes).<a id="xref-ref-20-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-20">20</a> Within each data dimension the top 200 most prevalent codes, whether diagnostic, procedural, or medication based, were selected, and each code was converted into three binary empirical covariates by rating how often a participant gets a code as “once,” “sporadic,” or “frequent.”</p> <p id="p-25">Covariates were selected based on exposure status-covariate relations only, and not covariate outcomes. This method of covariate selection enabled us to efficiently generate a single matched cohort for all outcomes. In addition, exposure-only selection can improve the functionality of the HDPS algorithm when a small number of exposed patients have an outcome event, as was expected in this study.<a id="xref-ref-22-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-22">22</a> The relative risk of being in the exposure group was calculated for each of the binary empirical covariates, and the top 500 binary empirical covariates were included in the propensity score estimation. Prescribed antipsychotic medications prior to pregnancy were not considered as covariates, as including them substantially reduced overlap in the propensity score distributions of exposed and unexposed women, making matching difficult. (A full list of exposure covariates included in the HDPS is found in supplementary table S2.)</p> <p id="p-26">Each antipsychotic medication user was 1:1 matched with a non-user based on the HDPS score within 0.2 standard deviations and on maternal age at delivery within 3 years.</p> </div> <div id="sec-7" class="subsection"> <h3>Study outcomes</h3> <p id="p-27">The main maternal medical outcomes were gestational diabetes, the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (that is, gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia), and venous thromboembolism, arising within the index pregnancy, the delivery hospitalisation, or within 42 days after delivery (corresponding to the postpartum period). These outcomes, considered to be prevalent, modifiable, and potentially linked to antipsychotic medication exposure, were identified through the CIHI-DAD using ICD-10CA codes or in the OHIP database using validated codes.<a id="xref-ref-23-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-23">23</a> <a id="xref-ref-24-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-24">24</a> <a id="xref-ref-25-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-25">25</a></p> <p id="p-28">The main perinatal outcomes were preterm birth <37 weeks gestation and extremes of newborn weight, namely a birth weight <3rd centile or >97th centile for same sex and same gestational age.<a id="xref-ref-26-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-26">26</a> These outcomes were selected because they are prevalent and are major determinants of perinatal morbidity and mortality.<a id="xref-ref-27-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-27">27</a> <a id="xref-ref-28-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-28">28</a> <a id="xref-ref-29-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-29">29</a> <a id="xref-ref-30-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-30">30</a> Perinatal outcomes were based on validated ICD-10CA diagnoses during the index birth hospitalisation (CIHI-DAD).<a id="xref-ref-24-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-24">24</a> <a id="xref-ref-31-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-31">31</a></p> <p id="p-29">Secondary outcomes included a number of other key adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes that were derived using the same databases as for the primary outcomes.<a id="xref-ref-32-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-32">32</a> These included specific maternal and neonatal conditions, health service utilisation, and mortality. A list of the data sources and codes used to define each outcome is found in supplementary table S1.</p> </div> <div id="sec-8" class="subsection"> <h3>Statistical analyses</h3> <p id="p-30">We reported the baseline characteristics of antipsychotic users and non-users prior to matching (that is, the “unmatched cohort”), and of antipsychotic users and non-users after matching on HDPS score (the “matched cohort”). For the unmatched cohort, Poisson regression analysis was used to generate relative risks and 95% confidence intervals, comparing the risk of each study outcome among antipsychotic users relative to non-users.</p> <p id="p-31">For the matched cohort, conditional Poisson regression analysis was used to compare the risk of each study outcome among antipsychotic users relative to their matched non-users. We further adjusted for a prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), non-SSRI, mood stabiliser, or benzodiazepine medication during the index pregnancy because standardised differences exceeded 0.10 on these key prognostic variables even after matching.</p> <p id="p-32">To provide more details about the association between specific antipsychotic medications and the main outcomes, we further restricted the analyses to the atypical antipsychotics, as well as exclusively prescribed quetiapine, olanzapine, and risperidone. We conducted sensitivity analyses for the main outcomes according to the pregnancy trimester of medication exposure. For selected secondary outcomes likely to be associated with time-specific exposures (that is, first trimester drug exposure and congenital malformations, or third trimester drug exposure and neonatal adaptation syndrome), we conducted sensitivity analyses restricting exposure to the appropriate time periods. We also conducted sensitivity analyses for the main maternal medical and main perinatal outcomes, and for the secondary outcome of congenital malformations, in which we excluded those matched pairs where a non-user was prescribed an antipsychotic medication between one and 60 days before the estimated date of conception.</p> <p id="p-33">All analyses were conducted using SAS statistical software, version 9.3 of the SAS System for Unix.</p> <p id="p-34"><em>Patient involvement—</em>There was no direct patient involvement in this study. ICES datasets comprise linked de-identified health administrative information.</p> </div> </div><div class="section results" id="sec-9"> <h2 class="">Results</h2> <p id="p-35">There were 52 615 singleton live births or stillbirths to women eligible for public drug coverage during the study period. Of these, we identified 1913 pregnancies during which an antipsychotic drug was prescribed, of which 1323 pregnancies (in 1209 unique women) had two consecutive prescriptions, one of which was filled in the first or second trimester. We identified 50 702 pregnancies (to 40 314 unique women) with no antipsychotic prescriptions. Within both groups, we randomly selected one birth for each woman, such that no woman contributed more than one birth to the analysis.</p> <p id="p-36">Out of 1209 antipsychotic users in the overall cohort, 1021 (84%) were successfully matched using the HDPS algorithm (table 1<a id="xref-table-wrap-1-1" class="xref-down-link" href="#T1"><span>⇓</span></a>). About 90% of matched antipsychotic users were exclusively prescribed an atypical antipsychotic medication, and, of these, 556 were exclusively prescribed quetiapine, 166 olanzapine, and 112 risperidone.</p> <div id="T1" class="table pos-float"><div class="table"><div class="table-caption"><span class="table-label">Table 1</span> <p id="p-37" class="first-child"> Characteristics of 41 523 women who were categorised by whether they were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy. Of these, 1021 antipsychotic drug users were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm. Values are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise</p> <div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div><div class="table-inline"><div class="callout"><span>View this table:</span><ul class="callout-links"><li><a href="/highwire/markup/896018/expansion?width=1000&height=500&iframe=true&postprocessors=highwire_figures%2Chighwire_math" class="colorbox colorbox-load table-expand-popup" rel="gallery-fragment-tables">View popup</a></li><li><a href="" class="table-expand-inline" data-table-url="/highwire/markup/896018/expansion?postprocessors=highwire_figures%2Chighwire_math">View inline</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div></div></div> <p id="p-40">Unmatched antipsychotic users were older and had higher baseline medical morbidity than unmatched non-users (table 1). They also had more prenatal visits and were less likely to receive antenatal care from an obstetrician. There were substantial differences between unmatched users and non-users for all mental health measures. After matching, there was marked attenuation in the standardised differences for all baseline characteristics. Although reduced by the matching process, notable standardised differences persisted between matched users and non-users for psychotic and major mood disorders, as well as for prescribed antidepressant drugs, mood stabilisers, and benzodiazepines (table 1). Nearly 88% of antipsychotic users, compared with 27% of matched non-users, were prescribed an antipsychotic medication within one year before the estimated date of conception.</p> <div id="sec-10" class="subsection"> <h3>Main outcomes</h3> <p id="p-41">For the main maternal outcomes assessed within the unmatched cohort, event rates were higher among antipsychotic users than non-users for gestational diabetes (7.7% <em>v</em> 6.2%) and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (5.2% <em>v</em> 3.5%), but not for venous thromboembolism (table 2<a id="xref-table-wrap-2-1" class="xref-down-link" href="#T2"><span>⇓</span></a>). In the matched cohort, these differences were no longer significant, before or after further adjustment for other prescribed psychotropic drugs (table 2). On restricting our analysis to atypical antipsychotics and specific drugs, the results were unchanged (fig 1<a id="xref-fig-1-1" class="xref-down-link" href="#F1"><span>⇓</span></a>).</p> <div id="F1" class="fig pos-float odd"><div class="fig-inline"><div class="highwire-figure"><div class="fig-inline-img-wrapper"><div class="fig-inline-img"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F1.large.jpg?width=800&height=600" title="Fig 1 Main maternal medical outcomes in a cohort of 1021 women who were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy and who were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm. Relative risks compare antipsychotic drug users—restricted to use of any atypical antipsychotic drug, and specifically, quetiapine, olanzapine, or risperidone—with matched non-users" class="colorbox fragment-images colorbox-load" rel="gallery-fragment-images" data-figure-caption="<div class="highwire-markup"><div class="fig-caption" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p id="p-42" class="first-child"><strong>Fig 1</strong> Main maternal medical outcomes in a cohort of 1021 women who were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy and who were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm. Relative risks compare antipsychotic drug users—restricted to use of any atypical antipsychotic drug, and specifically, quetiapine, olanzapine, or risperidone—with matched non-users</p> <div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div></div>"><img class="fragment-image" src="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F1.medium.gif" alt="Figure1"/></a></div></div><div xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="fig-caption"> <p id="p-42" class="first-child"><strong>Fig 1</strong> Main maternal medical outcomes in a cohort of 1021 women who were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy and who were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm. Relative risks compare antipsychotic drug users—restricted to use of any atypical antipsychotic drug, and specifically, quetiapine, olanzapine, or risperidone—with matched non-users</p> <div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div><ul class="highwire-figure-links list-inline"><li class="download-fig first"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F1.large.jpg?download=true" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-download" title="Download Figure1">Download figure</a></li> <li class="new-tab"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F1.large.jpg" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-newtab" target="_blank">Open in new tab</a></li> <li class="download-ppt last"><a href="/highwire/powerpoint/896016" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-ppt">Download powerpoint</a></li> </ul></div></div><div class="fig-caption" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></div></div> <div id="T2" class="table pos-float"><div class="table"><div class="table-caption"><span class="table-label">Table 2</span> <p id="p-43" class="first-child"> Main maternal medical and perinatal outcomes in a cohort of 41 523 women who were categorised by whether they were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy (n=1209) or not (n=40 314). Of these, 1021 antipsychotic drug users were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm </p> <div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div><div class="table-inline"><div class="callout"><span>View this table:</span><ul class="callout-links"><li><a href="/highwire/markup/896019/expansion?width=1000&height=500&iframe=true&postprocessors=highwire_figures%2Chighwire_math" class="colorbox colorbox-load table-expand-popup" rel="gallery-fragment-tables">View popup</a></li><li><a href="" class="table-expand-inline" data-table-url="/highwire/markup/896019/expansion?postprocessors=highwire_figures%2Chighwire_math">View inline</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div></div></div> <p id="p-45">For the main perinatal outcomes assessed within the unmatched cohort, event rates were higher among antipsychotic users than non-users for preterm birth (14.8% <em>v</em> 10.3%) and birth weight >97th centile (3.7% <em>v</em> 2.6%) (table 2<a id="xref-table-wrap-2-2" class="xref-up-link" href="#T2"><span>⇑</span></a>). After matching, none of these outcomes was significantly different between antipsychotic users and non-users (table 2), even when restricting our analysis to atypical antipsychotics and specific drugs (fig 2<a id="xref-fig-2-1" class="xref-down-link" href="#F2"><span>⇓</span></a>).</p> <div id="F2" class="fig pos-float odd"><div class="fig-inline"><div class="highwire-figure"><div class="fig-inline-img-wrapper"><div class="fig-inline-img"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F2.large.jpg?width=800&height=600" title="Fig 2 Main perinatal outcomes in a cohort of 1021 women who were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy and who were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm. Relative risks compare antipsychotic drug users—restricted to use of any atypical antipsychotic drug, and specifically, quetiapine, olanzapine, or risperidone—with matched non-users" class="colorbox fragment-images colorbox-load" rel="gallery-fragment-images" data-figure-caption="<div class="highwire-markup"><div class="fig-caption" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></div></div>"><img class="fragment-image" src="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F2.medium.gif" alt="Figure2"/></a></div></div><div xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="fig-caption"> <p id="p-46" class="first-child"><strong>Fig 2</strong> Main perinatal outcomes in a cohort of 1021 women who were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy and who were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm. Relative risks compare antipsychotic drug users—restricted to use of any atypical antipsychotic drug, and specifically, quetiapine, olanzapine, or risperidone—with matched non-users</p> <div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div><ul class="highwire-figure-links list-inline"><li class="download-fig first"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F2.large.jpg?download=true" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-download" title="Download Figure2">Download figure</a></li> <li class="new-tab"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/350/bmj.h2298/F2.large.jpg" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-newtab" target="_blank">Open in new tab</a></li> <li class="download-ppt last"><a href="/highwire/powerpoint/896017" class="highwire-figure-link highwire-figure-link-ppt">Download powerpoint</a></li> </ul></div></div><div class="fig-caption" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></div></div> </div> <div id="sec-11" class="subsection"> <h3>Secondary outcomes</h3> <p id="p-47">In the unmatched cohort, women using antipsychotics had significantly higher rates of placental abruption, labour induction, caesarean section, and operative vaginal delivery, as well as readmission to hospital (table 3<a id="xref-table-wrap-3-1" class="xref-down-link" href="#T3"><span>⇓</span></a>). Likewise, their infants were at significantly higher risk of preterm birth <32 weeks (relative risk 1.61 (95% CI 1.19 to 2.16)), intraventricular haemorrhage (2.84 (1.53 to 5.27)), seizures (4.30 (2.22 to 8.33)), sepsis (2.26 (1.53 to 3.32)), and especially, neonatal adaptation syndrome (7.06 (5.91 to 8.45)) (table 3). However, in the matched cohort, only labour induction (adjusted relative risk 1.23 (1.03 to 1.48)) and operative vaginal delivery (1.55 (1.10 to 2.19)) were associated with antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy (table 3).</p> <div id="T3" class="table pos-float"><div class="table"><div class="table-caption"><span class="table-label">Table 3</span> <p id="p-48" class="first-child"> Secondary maternal and perinatal outcomes in a cohort of 41 523 women who were categorised by whether they were prescribed an antipsychotic drug during pregnancy (n=1209) or not (n=40 314). Of these, 1021 antipsychotic drug users were matched 1:1 with 1021 non-users by means of a high dimensional propensity score (HDPS) algorithm</p> <div class="sb-div caption-clear"></div></div><div class="table-inline"><div class="callout"><span>View this table:</span><ul class="callout-links"><li><a href="/highwire/markup/896020/expansion?width=1000&height=500&iframe=true&postprocessors=highwire_figures%2Chighwire_math" class="colorbox colorbox-load table-expand-popup" rel="gallery-fragment-tables">View popup</a></li><li><a href="" class="table-expand-inline" data-table-url="/highwire/markup/896020/expansion?postprocessors=highwire_figures%2Chighwire_math">View inline</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div></div></div> </div> <div id="sec-12" class="subsection"> <h3>Sensitivity analyses</h3> <p id="p-52">Assessment of the main maternal and perinatal outcomes by trimester of exposure in the matched cohort was generally consistent with the primary analyses (supplementary table S3). Birth weight >97th centile was more common among those prescribed an antipsychotic agent in the second or third trimester of pregnancy compared with matched controls, but the associations were no longer significant after adjusting for other prescribed non-antipsychotic psychotropic medications. Restricting antipsychotic exposure to the first trimester of pregnancy in the assessment of congenital malformations, and to the third trimester for consideration of the neonatal adaptation syndrome, no meaningful changes in the main results were observed (supplementary table S4). For the matched analyses, 75 women in the non-user group were prescribed an antipsychotic medication in the 60 days before the conception date. Excluding these 75 matched pairs did not appreciably change the adjusted relative risks for the main maternal and perinatal outcomes or for the outcome of any congenital malformation (supplementary table S5).</p> </div> </div><div class="section discussion" id="sec-13"> <h2 class="">Discussion</h2> <div id="sec-14" class="subsection"> <h3>Principal findings</h3> <p id="p-53">Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy did not substantially worsen maternal medical or short term perinatal outcomes in a cohort of women closely matched on baseline characteristics using a HDPS algorithm. The only exceptions were a slightly higher risk of labour induction and vaginal delivery among exposed pregnancies. However, antipsychotic users had outcome event rates that were much higher than in the general population.<a id="xref-ref-33-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-33">33</a> This was true for the main maternal outcomes of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and venous thromboembolism, and for the main perinatal outcomes, including almost a 14% rate of preterm birth, about twice that in the general population.<a id="xref-ref-33-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-33">33</a> Although there were few events, the observed neonatal mortality rate of 1% was twice that of the general population.<a id="xref-ref-33-3" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-33">33</a></p> </div> <div id="sec-15" class="subsection"> <h3>Strengths and limitations of study</h3> <p id="p-54">We included a large, population based cohort of women, using a clear definition of the study exposure followed by meaningful outcomes. In contrast to other studies, we used an HDPS matching procedure to create a comparison group closely matched on measured baseline characteristics. This method also attempts to balance individuals on a number of other factors that may be proxies for confounders not easily identified in our databases, thus reducing the potential impact of unmeasured confounding. By presenting effect estimates for an unmatched cohort, as well as a matched cohort, we were able to show the potential magnitude of bias created from confounding by indication.</p> <p id="p-55">We included only women for whom information on prescription medications was available through a provincially covered drug plan. Individuals eligible for this drug plan tend to have worse health states, greater disability, and are of lower socioeconomic status compared with individuals who pay privately for their medication. Therefore, these results may not be entirely generalisable to antipsychotic users who are healthier and of higher socioeconomic status. Nonetheless, the women included herein warrant careful study of the impact of medication use in pregnancy, as they may be more susceptible to adverse outcomes than healthier women.</p> <p id="p-56">The use of HDPS matching is meant to minimise residual confounding and to approximate relative risk estimates observed in a randomised clinical trial. Nonetheless, we did not achieve a balanced match on some characteristics. Most notably, the groups differed after matching on additionally prescribed non-antipsychotic psychotropic medication. Because other psychotropic drugs could affect maternal and perinatal outcomes,<a id="xref-ref-34-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-34">34</a> <a id="xref-ref-35-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-35">35</a> <a id="xref-ref-36-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-36">36</a> <a id="xref-ref-37-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-37">37</a> they were adjusted for, however. It is reassuring that, on doing so, the results for the outcomes in the main analyses did not change. Nonetheless, residual confounding may have persisted due to inadequate capture of variables such as smoking and obesity or due to unmeasured factors such as psychiatric symptoms.<a id="xref-ref-38-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-38">38</a> <a id="xref-ref-39-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-39">39</a></p> <p id="p-57">We allowed for a broad time exposure window for antipsychotic medication use. This would be expected to reduce the accurate capture of the timing of medication exposure in pregnancy, and thus, the specific determination of time sensitive outcomes. For this reason, we conducted sensitivity analyses for the main outcomes by trimester of exposure, including limiting congenital malformations to exposure in the first trimester and the neonatal adaptation syndrome to exposure in the third trimester.</p> <p id="p-58">We did not specifically assess for tardive dyskinesia or other movement disorders in the mother, nor we did not assess the effects of antipsychotic drugs on maternal or infant cardiac conduction, such as QT interval prolongation. While we did not have access to clinical data with that level of detail, we did assess for rare adverse neonatal cardiac and neurological outcomes, such as cardiac arrest and status epilepticus.</p> <p id="p-59">Our subgroup analyses were based on relatively large samples of 923 atypical antipsychotic users and 556 quetiapine users. However, there were only 166 exclusive olanzapine users and 112 exclusive risperidone users, producing relatively underpowered subgroups analyses for most rare outcomes.</p> </div> <div id="sec-16" class="subsection"> <h3>Context in relation to existing literature</h3> <p id="p-60">Two large population based studies previously evaluated the use of antipsychotic medications in pregnancy. Reis and Kallen evaluated 570 Swedish women with self reported use of antipsychotic medications in early pregnancy and compared them with unexposed women on a wide range of outcomes.<a id="xref-ref-40-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-40">40</a> In contrast to our study, they observed an increased risk of gestational diabetes (adjusted odds ratio 1.78 (95% CI 1.04 to 3.71)) and caesarean delivery (1.43 (1.14 to 1.74)), but their analyses only accounted for confounding by year of birth, maternal age, parity, smoking, and prior miscarriage. Importantly, their findings are consistent with those generated for our unmatched cohort.</p> <p id="p-61">A second Swedish population based study, using a prescription drug database, compared 507 pregnancies with antenatal exposure to an antipsychotic medication with 357 696 unexposed pregnancies with respect to the risk for gestational diabetes, small and large birth weight for gestational age, and macrocephaly by trimester of exposure.<a id="xref-ref-41-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-41">41</a> After controlling for maternal body mass index, maternal age, country of origin, cohabitation, and smoking—but not use of other psychotropic medications—there was no significant difference in most outcomes, which is generally consistent with our findings. However, they observed a higher risk of macrocephaly among infants exposed to olanzapine and clozapine (adjusted odds ratio 3.02 (95% CI 1.60 to 5.71)), an outcome that we did not consider. These two cohort studies<a id="xref-ref-40-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-40">40</a> <a id="xref-ref-41-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-41">41</a> and others<a id="xref-ref-41-3" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-41">41</a> <a id="xref-ref-42-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-42">42</a> have advanced our understanding about the safety of antipsychotic medication use in pregnancy, but none dealt sufficiently with evident confounding by indication by using HDPS, as we did.</p> </div> <div id="sec-17" class="subsection"> <h3>Explanation of current findings</h3> <p id="p-62">Our findings suggest that antipsychotic medication use in pregnancy poses a minimal risk for adverse outcomes for the pregnant woman and her fetus, in and of itself. However, it is of great interest that the rates of adverse perinatal outcomes observed in our matched cohort of antipsychotic users were higher than in the unmatched controls or in the general population.<a id="xref-ref-33-4" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-33">33</a> This means that women and fetuses exposed to antipsychotic drugs seem to be at higher absolute risk of adverse outcomes, even though they approximated the risk of matched non-users with similarly high pre-pregnancy morbidity. In the matched cohort, about 88% of antipsychotic users and 27% of non-users had been prescribed an antipsychotic medication within the year before conception. As such, it remains possible that atypical antipsychotic drugs worsened a woman’s metabolic function before pregnancy. This is supported by the fact that the baseline rates of diabetes (4%) and chronic hypertension (4%) were higher for women in our cohort than in the general population, whose respective rates are 1% and 1.7%.<a id="xref-ref-42-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-42">42</a> <a id="xref-ref-43-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-43">43</a> We do not know the reason for the observed higher risk of labour induction and operative vaginal delivery. Given that these were the only statistically significant outcomes among a long list of secondary outcomes, it simply could be the play of chance, or because their caregivers were more inclined to set the timing or mode of delivery in the face of a major mental illness.</p> <p id="p-63">It is important to address our findings about neonatal adaptation syndrome, one of our secondary outcomes. In 2011 the US Federal Drug Administration issued a warning about risk for extrapyramidal symptoms or withdrawal in the newborn after exposure to antipsychotic medication in utero (<a href="http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm243903.htm">www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm243903.htm</a>). This warning was based on 69 case reports, most of which were confounded by other potential aetiological factors. In our study, the sevenfold increased risk for neonatal adaptation syndrome in the unmatched cohort was reduced to a small, non-significant relative risk in the matched cohort analysis. This suggests that neonatal adaptation syndrome following antenatal antipsychotic exposure could be attributable to other factors, such as increased rates of concomitant medication use, substance use, or alcohol use in women prescribed an antipsychotic drug rather than due to the medication itself. Certainly, this is an area in need of detailed study about drug initiation and cessation before delivery, and the use of a standardised measure of neonatal adaptation syndrome.</p> </div> <div id="sec-18" class="subsection"> <h3>Conclusions and future directions</h3> <p id="p-64">Decisions about medication use in pregnancy involve weighing the indications and potential benefits over that of potential harm to mother and child. Women requiring antipsychotic medications are at higher absolute risk for certain adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes compared with the general population. As such, it is prudent to closely monitor the medical health of these women before and during, pregnancy, with particular attention to issues related to diabetes, hypertension, preterm birth, and fetal growth. However, antipsychotic medications themselves do not seem to have an extensive negative impact on important measures of maternal medical and short term perinatal wellbeing. This is reassuring, at least in the short term, for a woman with serious mental illness who requires an antipsychotic medication to achieve and maintain psychiatric stability during and after pregnancy.</p> <div class="style4" id="boxed-text-1"><div id="sec-19" class="subsection"> <h4>What is already known on this topic</h4> <ul class="list-simple " id="list-2"><li id="list-item-5"> <p id="p-65">Antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy has increased in recent years, but most studies have evaluated the older, “typical” antipsychotic drugs, which are now less commonly used</p> </li><li id="list-item-6"> <p id="p-66">The few studies that have evaluated atypical antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy suggest that these drugs may be associated with increased risk for maternal metabolic complications in pregnancy (such as gestational diabetes) with resultant consequences (such as altered fetal growth), but these are limited in terms of sample size and in considering important confounding factors</p> </li></ul> </div><div id="sec-20" class="subsection"> <h4>What this study adds</h4> <ul class="list-simple " id="list-3"><li id="list-item-7"> <p id="p-67">Our study suggests that antipsychotic drug use in pregnancy does not independently increase risk for important short term maternal medical and perinatal outcomes</p> </li><li id="list-item-8"> <p id="p-68">This is largest study of antipsychotic exposed pregnancies to date and the only study that used a high dimensional propensity score matching technique to minimise treatment selection bias, providing key information about risk for women who require these medications for psychiatric stability in pregnancy</p> </li></ul> </div></div> </div> </div><div class="section notes" id="notes-2"><h2>Notes</h2> <p id="p-75"><strong>Cite this as:</strong> <em>BMJ</em> 2015;350:h2298</p> </div><div class="section fn-group" id="fn-group-1"><h2>Footnotes</h2><ul><li class="fn-participating-researchers" id="fn-1"> <p id="p-69">Contributors: SNV, TG, VHT, and JGR conceived of the study. All authors performed data analysis and interpretation. SNV drafted the manuscript; SNV, TG, ASW, VHT, and JGR revised the manuscript; and all authors approval the final version. SNV is guarantor for the study.</p> </li><li class="fn-financial-disclosure" id="fn-2"> <p id="p-70">Funding: This study was supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). It was also supported by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), which is funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC). The opinions, results, and conclusions reported in this paper are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources. No endorsement by ICES or the Ontario MOHLTC is intended or should be inferred.</p> </li><li class="fn-financial-disclosure" id="fn-3"> <p id="p-71">Role of the study sponsors: The study sponsors provided the operating costs and infrastructure to support the research. No funding bodies had any role in the study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.</p> </li><li class="fn-conflict" id="fn-4"> <p id="p-72">Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at <a href="http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf">www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf</a> and declare that no authors (nor their institutions) received payments for their efforts on this project. Unrelated to this project, SNV has received a one-time consulting fee from Multi-Dimensional Health Care (MDH) consulting for the development of continuing healthcare activities related to perinatal mental health; VHT receives funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb for an investigator initiated study and has been a speaker for Astra-Zeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and Lundbeck. The remaining authors declare no competing interests: no support from any organisation for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years, no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.</p> </li><li class="fn" id="fn-5"> <p id="p-73">Transparency: SNV affirms that the manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned have been explained. All authors, external and internal, had full access to all of the data (including statistical reports and tables) in the study and can take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.</p> </li><li class="fn" id="fn-6"> <p id="p-74">Data sharing: ICES is named as a prescribed entity under Section 45(1) of Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA). As a requirement of having this status in PHIPA, ICES policies, practices and procedures are reviewed and approved by the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner. 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