NCT Number: NCT03948620
Over the last 20 years, concerns have been raised about rare but serious adverse outcomes associated with macrolide use during pregnancy. The strongest evidence comes from a large randomised controlled trial (RCT, ORACLE Child Study II) of women with spontaneous preterm labour (SPL), which reported an increased risk of cerebral palsy in children whose mothers received erythromycin compared with no erythromycin. A recent systematic review on macrolides prescription during pregnancy showed consistent associations with miscarriage, and less consistent associations with adverse child outcomes such as congenital malformations, cerebral palsy and epilepsy. In this study, the investigators will evaluate associations between macrolide antibiotics prescription during pregnancy and a range of adverse child outcomes.
The investigators compare children whose mothers were prescribed an only monotherapy of macrolides or penicillins during pregnancy (from 5 gestational week (GW) to delivery and by trimesters). The investigators estimate the risk ratios of major malformation (overall and five system-specific) and hazard ratios of four neurodevelopmental disorders (cerebral palsy, epilepsy, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorder) with control for potential confounders. The associations will also be examined by subtype of macrolides and treatment duration.
Mother-child pairs will be analysed in a cohort selected from the UK Clinical Practice Research Database (CPRD) between 1990 and 2016.
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Macrolide antibiotics, including erythromycin, clarithromycin and azithromycin. Prescriptions of macrolides will be identified using a drug code list based on the British National Formulary (chapter 5.1.5) and the date of the first prescription was used as the index date of exposure.
The comparison group consists of children whose mother were prescribed penicillins during pregnancy. Prescriptions of penicillins will be identified using a drug code list based on the British National Formulary (chapter 5.1.1) and the date of the first prescription will be used as the index date of exposure.
Time frame: From birth up to 4 years after birth.
Major malformation overall will be defined as any of the 11 major system-specific malformations defined in the European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies (EUROCAT)(Congenital heart defect, nervous system, eye, ear/face/neck, respiratory tract, oro-facial cleft, digestive system, abdominal wall defect, urinary tract, genital tract, and other malformations). The investigators exclude musculoskeletal malformations which are not reliably recorded in general practice (GP) records, and malformation with known cause such as malformation resulted from maternal infections, fetal alcohol syndrome and chromosomal malformations. The malformations will be identified in the children's medical records using Read codes mapped from the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code lists provided by EUROCAT.
Time frame: From birth up to 4 years after birth.
The malformations will be identified in the children's medical records using Read codes mapped from the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code lists provided by EUROCAT (ICD Q20-Q26; exclude Q2111, Q250 if gestational age (GA) <37 weeks, Q2541, Q256 if GA<37 weeks, and Q261).
Time frame: From birth up to 4 years after birth.
The malformations will be identified in the children's medical records using Read codes mapped from the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code lists provided by EUROCAT (Q00-Q07, exclude Q0461, Q0782).
Time frame: From birth up to 4 years after birth.
The malformations will be identified in the children's medical records using Read codes mapped from the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code lists provided by EUROCAT (Q38-Q45, Q790, exclude Q381, Q382, Q3850, Q400, Q401, Q4021, Q430, Q4320, Q4381, Q4382).
Time frame: From birth up to 4 years after birth.
The malformations will be identified in the children's medical records using Read codes mapped from the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code lists provided by EUROCAT (Q50-Q52, Q54-Q56; exclude Q523, Q525, Q527, Q5520, Q5521).
Time frame: From birth up to 4 years after birth.
The malformations will be identified in the children's medical records using Read codes mapped from the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code lists provided by EUROCAT (Q60-Q64, Q794; exclude Q610, Q627, Q633).
Time frame: From birth up to 15 years after birth.
The investigators identify children with cerebral palsy using informative Read codes or prescription codes (selected by the Random Forest approach) and validated by a paediatric neurologist (FC) and a clinical epidemiologist with paediatrics expertise (RG) blinded to their prenatal exposure (A machine learning approach to identify cases of cerebral palsy using the UK primary care database.Fan, Heng et al.The Lancet , Volume 392 , S33).
Time frame: From birth up to 15 years after birth.
The investigators identify epilepsy by 2 prescriptions of antiepileptic drug (AED, identified based on British National Formula Chapter 4.8) within 4 months or >= 1 diagnosis in children's GP records.
Time frame: From birth up to 15 years after birth.
The investigators identify ADHD by >= 2 occurrence of prescriptions for ADHD ( identified based on British National Formula Chapter 4.4) or diagnoses (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperkinetic disorders, hyperkinetic syndrome, hyperkinetic reaction of childhood or adolescence, overactive child syndrome and disturbance of activity and attention) in children's GP records.
Time frame: From birth up to 15 years after birth.
The investigators identify ASD by at least 1 diagnostic code ((infantile or childhood) autism, Asperger's syndrome, Rett's syndrome, Heller's syndrome, Autistic spectrum disorder, disintegrative disorder, and other pervasive developmental disorders) in children's GP records.
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Associations Between Macrolide Antibiotics Prescribed During Pregnancy and Adverse Child Outcomes
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