Abstract
Purpose
To study if second-generation antipsychotic (S-GA) use during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of pregnancy and neonatal complications.
Methods
A population-based birth cohort study using national register data extracted from the “Drugs and Pregnancy” database in Finland, years 1996–2016. The sampling frame included 1,181,090 pregnant women and their singleton births. Women were categorized into three groups: exposed to S-GAs during pregnancy (n = 4225), exposed to first-generation antipsychotics (F-GAs) during pregnancy (n = 1576), and unexposed (no purchases of S-GAs or F-GAs during pregnancy, n = 21,125). Pregnancy outcomes in S-GA users were compared with those in the two comparison groups using multiple logistic regression models.
Results
Comparing S-GA users with unexposed ones, the risk was increased for gestational diabetes (adjusted odds ratio, OR 1.43; 95% CI 1.25–1.65), cesarean section (OR 1.35; 95% CI 1.18–1.53), being born large for gestational age (LGA) (OR 1.57; 95% CI 1.14–2.16), and preterm birth (OR 1.29; 95% CI 1.03–1.62). The risk for these outcomes increased further with continuous S-GA use. Infants in the S-GA group were also more likely to suffer from neonatal complications. Comparing S-GA users with the F-GA group, the risk of cesarean section and LGA was higher (OR 1.25, 95% CI 1.03–1.51; and OR 1.89, 95% CI 1.20–2.99, respectively). Neonatal complications did not differ between the S-GA and F-GA groups.
Conclusions
Prenatal exposure to S-GAs is associated with an increased risk of pregnancy complications related to impaired glucose metabolism. Neonatal problems are common and occur similarly in S-GA and F-GA users.
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Introduction
Use of the second-generation antipsychotics (S-GAs) has increased during the last decades. This tendency is evident not only on population level but also within the pregnant population. In the USA, the prevalence of use of S-GAs during pregnancy increased from 0.4 to 1.3% in 2001–2010, while the use of first-generation antipsychotics (F-GAs) remained stable at around 0.1% [1]. The increased use of S-GAs may be related to the argued, but not uniformly proven, better tolerability or a more favorable side-effect profile when compared with that of F-GAs [2]. Off-label use, including use as hypnotics and sedatives, may also play a role. There are no published data on use of antipsychotics during pregnancy in Finland.
Several S-GAs—contrary to FGAs—have minor effect on prolactin secretion [3] and pregnancies may occur more easily during treatment. Use of S-GAs may predispose to hyperglycemia [3, 4], and maternal gestational diabetes increases the risk of several pregnancy complications including being born large for gestational age (LGA). While some previous studies have reported an increased risk of gestational diabetes [5,6,7] or LGA [8, 9] associated with S-GA use, not all studies have confirmed these associations [10,11,12,13]. Use of S-GAs during pregnancy has also been associated with increased risk of being born small for gestational age (SGA) [10], low birth weight [14], and preterm birth [9, 10, 12, 15], but results have been conflicting [5, 13]. Antipsychotic drugs can further give rise to neonatal symptoms reflected in poor Apgar score or need for treatment in the neonatal care unit. Even though S-GA treatment is suspected to increase the risk of pregnancy complications, changing effective medication is rarely possible as maternal well-being is a prerequisite for a favorable pregnancy outcome. Because of the increasing use of S-GAs among pregnant women and conflicting data on their safety, we investigated the association between S-GA use during pregnancy and pregnancy and neonatal complications using nationwide register data.
Methods
This is a population-based birth cohort study using national register data extracted from the existing Drugs and Pregnancy database, established by the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), and the Finnish Medicines Agency (FIMEA) [16]. The objective of the database is continuous surveillance of drug safety during pregnancy by using the Medical Birth Register, the Abortion Register, the National Register of Congenital Malformations, and the Prescription Register, including also the Special Refund Entitlement Register. Data from these registers have been linked by the personal identification number assigned to all citizens and permanent residents in Finland. Data from births and terminations of pregnancy, and prescription drug purchases have been collected since 1 Jan. 1996. The beginning of pregnancy has been calculated from the best clinical estimation of gestational age at birth, primarily based on ultrasound. Pregnancy trimesters are divided into first (until 84 days’ gestation), second (days 85–182), and third (days 183 until birth).
The Medical Birth Register (MBR) maintained since 1987 by THL is a nationwide register collecting data on maternal demographic characteristics, medical and reproductive history, smoking, diagnoses during pregnancy and delivery, and neonatal outcome data up to 6 days’ age. Data in the MBR includes all live births and stillbirths with gestational age of 22 weeks or more or birth weight of 500 g or more, and the completeness of births is close to 100% [17,18,19]. The definitions and variables included in this registry are based on established international concepts and use the 10th version of the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD) since 1996 (children) and 2004 (mothers).
The Finnish Prescription Registry (Kela) contains data on reimbursed prescription drug purchases [20]. Prescription-only medicines deemed necessary for the treatment of an illness are reimbursed under the national social insurance which covers all permanent residents in Finland. Drug purchases are reimbursed concomitantly upon purchase at pharmacies, and drugs are supplied to the patient for a maximum of 3 months at a time. Data in the register include the date of the purchase and the International Anatomical-Therapeutic-Chemical (ATC) classification code indicating the generic name of the drug (https://www.who.int/classifications/atcddd/en/). Over-the-counter drugs or medications given to institutionalized persons are not included in the register. The Kela also maintains the Special Refund Entitlement Register since 1964 with data on patients who are entitled for higher reimbursement for chronic illnesses requiring continuous drug treatment.
Definition of exposed and unexposed cohorts
This study frame included 1,181,090 pregnancies ending in singleton birth in Finland between 1 Jan. 1996 and 31 Dec. 2016 recorded in the Drugs and Pregnancy database (Fig. 1). Exposed to S-GAs: women who purchased S-GAs (olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, aripiprazole, clozapine, ziprasidone, sertindole, or asenapine; Supplementary Table S1) at any time during pregnancy or 1 month before pregnancy (n = 4225). Continuous use of S-GAs: women who purchased S-GAs in at least two trimesters (n = 2135). Unexposed: pregnant women who had no purchases of S-GAs or F-GAs during the period of 1 month prior to pregnancy until the end of pregnancy. Controls in this group were matched for year of birth of child (± 1 month) and were randomly selected as five controls for one exposed (5:1) (n = 21,125). Exposed to F-GAs: women who purchased F-GAs (Supplementary Table 1) but did not purchase S-GAs during the same period (n = 2126). This comparison group was included to control for maternal psychiatric illness. Pregnancies that were only exposed to prochlorperazine (n = 550) were excluded because it is mostly used for morning sickness, leaving 1576 women in the F-GA group for analyses. Continuous use of F-GAs: women who purchased F-GAs in at least two trimesters (n = 722).
Maternal characteristics and covariates
Covariates included maternal demographic, social and medical characteristics, and use of other drugs, categorized as shown in Table 1. Data on prepregnancy BMI were available only beginning from 2004 and for all women from September 2005. Alcohol use is not routinely collected in the MBR and could therefore not be included in analyses.
Outcome variables
The outcomes related to pregnancy and delivery included hypertension of pregnancy (ICD-10 diagnoses O10, O11, O16 or MBR hypertension record), gestational diabetes (ICD-10 diagnoses O24.4 and O24.9, pathological glucose tolerance test or MBR diabetes record with no information on pregestational diabetes), breech presentation, cesarean section, small for gestational age (SGA, birth weight of more than two standard deviations less than the sex- and length-of-gestation-specific national standards), large for gestational age (LGA, birth weight of more than two standard deviations more than the sex- and length-of-gestation-specific national standards) [21], categorically defined late preterm (32–36 gestational weeks) and very preterm birth (< 32 weeks), shoulder dystocia, and stillbirth. Neonatal outcomes included 1- and 5-min Apgar scores < 7, monitoring in neonatal care or neonatal intensive care unit (NCU), hospitalization at 7 days age, neonatal death, and post-neonatal death (Fig. 1).
Statistical analyses
All data in the Drugs and Pregnancy database are pseudonymized. The prevalence of specific outcomes was compared between the S-GA group, the unexposed group, and the F-GA group. Univariate analyses were used to study demographic differences between the study cohorts, and the logistic regression to assess the association between S-GA use during pregnancy and pregnancy and perinatal outcomes.
The crude model included adjustment for year of delivery. For the adjusted analyses, clinically relevant and plausible covariates were first tested for association with the three-class exposure status. When associated with exposure at significance level p < 0.1, the covariate was further tested separately for association with each outcome. For each of the 16 outcomes, we included in the logistic regression model covariates which were associated with exposure and outcome at p < 0.1 as potential confounders (Supplementary Table S2). We also analyzed third trimester use separately for neonatal outcomes. All analyses were performed in SAS (SAS 12.1, NC, USA).
The utilization of sensitive health register data for scientific research and the data linkages in the “Drugs and Pregnancy” project have been approved by the register administrators and the national data protection authority. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Since the study subjects are not contacted, according to the Finnish legislation, informed consent is not required for large register studies. The study was registered in The European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) register before data collection started (EUPAS4799). The study has been granted the ENCePP seal, following the ENCePP principles of standards, transparency, and independence of good pharmacoepidemiology practice throughout the research process (www.encepp.eu).
Results
Overall, the prevalence of any antipsychotic use in 1,181,090 singleton births was 0.5% during pregnancy or 30 days before it. S-GAs have basically replaced the use of F-GAs among pregnant women during the last 20 years (Fig. 2). A total of 4225 (0.4%) women purchased S-GAs during pregnancy or 30 days before pregnancy, and 2135 (0.2%) had prescription fills in at least two trimesters. S-GA and F-GA users were two or three times more frequently smokers than women not using antipsychotics. Overweight was also more prevalent in S-GA users than in unexposed women (45.5% vs. 32.8%). Maternal characteristics of the three study groups are presented in Table 1.
Pregnancy and delivery diagnoses by exposure status are presented in Table 2. Compared with that in the unexposed group, the risk of several pregnancy complications was increased in the S-GA group. The risk of gestational diabetes, cesarean section, LGA, and preterm birth remained clearly higher in the S-GA group also after adjustment (Table 2). Compared with that in the F-GA group, the risk of gestational diabetes was not increased, while the risk of cesarean section was 25% higher and LGA was close to twice as high in the S-GA group (adjusted OR 1.89; 95% CI 1.20–2.99) (Table 2). Of the most commonly used S-GAs, the prevalence of gestational diabetes ranged from 18.6% among risperidone users to 32.8% among clozapine users (Table 3).
Infants in the S-GA group were more likely to receive poor Apgar scores, to need treatment in neonatal care or intensive care unit and to be hospitalized at 7 days when compared with the unexposed group (Table 4). The risk of neonatal complications did not differ between the S-GA and F-GA groups (Table 4).
Restricting analyses to women with continuous use of S-GAs, the risk of gestational diabetes, cesarean section, LGA, and preterm birth increased further when compared with those in the unexposed group, while the risk of very preterm birth was lower (Table 5). Compared with the continuous use F-GA group, the risk of breech birth in the S-GA users was 2.7-fold, and the risk of LGA was 2.3-fold. This increased risk of cesarean section did not remain statistically significant after adjustment. Regardless of the increased risk of LGA, the risk of shoulder dystocia in S-GA pregnancies was not increased but the numbers were small (Table 5). Restricting analyses to third trimester purchases, the risk of receiving low Apgar scores, the risk of treatment in neonatal care or intensive care unit, and the risk of hospitalization at 7 days were further increased in the S-GA group when compared with those in the unexposed group. No differences in the risk of neonatal complications were observed between the S-GA and F-GA groups (Supplementary Table 3).
Discussion
In this population-based study, S-GA use during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of pregnancy complications, including gestational diabetes, cesarean section, LGA, and preterm birth when compared with the unexposed group. The risk for several neonatal complications was also increased. Compared with F-GAs, the risk for cesarean section was increased by 25%, and the risk for LGA was nearly 2-fold, while the risk of neonatal complications did not differ between these groups.
Previously published studies investigating the safety of S-GA use during pregnancy have been based on population registries [5, 11, 22], electronic health records [12, 13], insurance data [23], hospital registers [24, 25], and data from pharmacovigilance and teratology information centers, the latter typically based on prospectively collected exposure data [8,9,10, 26]. A few studies have considered mothers’ psychiatric illness using untreated disease controls, and few studies have compared different types of antipsychotics [11, 12, 26]. Because of different data sources and research methods, the results have often been conflicting and are difficult to compare. However, similarities in certain maternal characteristics have been observed across the studies. Mothers using antipsychotics tend to smoke more frequently, have a higher prepregnancy BMI, and have lower socioeconomic status (SES) than non-users [27, 28]. Smoking, obesity, and lower SES were associated with antipsychotic use also in our material.
Use of S-GAs can affect normal glucose metabolism and induce weight gain by inhibiting the insulin signaling pathway which leads to insulin resistance and increased insulin production, or by direct damage to pancreatic beta cells [29]. During pregnancy, high maternal blood glucose results in increased fetal insulin production. Insulin is an anabolic hormone and promotes fetal growth. Apart from genetically determined characteristics, maternal diabetes and high prepregnancy BMI are major risk factors for being born LGA. Previous research has shown conflicting results: increased risk of gestational diabetes was not observed in studies based on prospective interviews [28], electronic health records [12], and health administrative databases [13], while a recent study based on Medicaid data observed an increased risk of gestational diabetes in women using olanzapine or quetiapine [1]. Two previous studies with prospectively collected exposure data reported an increased risk of LGA associated with S-GA use [8, 9], but the numbers of exposed were too small for meaningful analysis. Contrary to these, the anticipated increased risk of being born LGA was not observed in a Swedish population-based cohort study after prenatal exposure to olanzapine or clozapine, the two most diabetogenic S-GAs [5]. We observed a 43% increase of gestational diabetes and a 57% increased risk of LGA in S-GA users compared with the unexposed ones, and these risks increased further with continuous use of S-GAs. Compared with that in the F-GA group, the risk of gestational diabetes was not increased, while the risk of LGA was increased by nearly 90%. However, only insulin-treated gestational diabetes was recorded in the MBR before 2004. Recording of glucose intolerance test and gestational diabetes diagnoses started only in 2004. Similarly, recording of maternal height and weight—used in calculating BMI—did not start until 2004. This coincides with the change in pattern of S-GA and F-GA use (Fig. 2) and is reflected in the large number (nearly 60%) of missing data of BMI in the F-GA group. Thus, completeness of pregestational and gestational diabetes diagnoses in our material substantially improves over time, and comparing the risks of gestational diabetes and LGA between S-GA and F-GA users is therefore of limited value. However, the S-GAs are known to pass the placenta [30] and a direct effect on fetal insulin secretion is therefore also possible. It could be hypothesized that even in the absence of maternal hyperglycemia, fetal exposure to S-GAs could cause inhibition of insulin signaling, followed by insulin resistance and increased insulin secretion in the fetus.
We observed a nearly threefold increased risk of breech birth is women who purchased S-GAs in two or more trimesters compared with the F-GA group, but the risk was not increased when compared with that in the unexposed ones. This may be a chance finding, as the numbers were small and the confidence intervals wide. Fetal growth restriction has been identified as a predictive factor for breech presentation [31] while LGA has not [32].
Preterm birth was more common in S-GA users than in the unexposed group, and the risk was further increased, being 51% higher in women with continuous S-GA use. This finding is in contrast to a large Canadian study based on health administrative data [13]. While we adjusted for several covariates, including use of other psychiatric drugs and entitlement for special reimbursement for psychosis, we did not have data on maternal history of previous preterm births. It is also likely that maternal illness–related factors or illness severity may to some extent explain this result as the risk was not increased in comparisons between the S-GA and the F-GA groups. The lower risk of very preterm birth in S-GA users compared with the unexposed ones was an unexpected finding. This may be attributed to methodology as women giving birth in very early weeks were less likely to fulfill the criteria of purchases in at least two pregnancy trimesters.
Major strengths in our study include the comprehensive prospectively acquired data covering all births in the country during the study period. We adjusted for a high number of potential confounders obtained from the registers and included a comparison group of women using F-GAs during pregnancy, controlling to some extent for maternal illness. The prevalence of antipsychotic drug use and several of the examined outcomes in our study were comparable with those in other countries [1, 6, 7, 12], suggesting that the results are generalizable to other populations. Further, data in the drug prescription register is virtually complete [20] and as antipsychotics are reimbursed, it is likely that all purchases are included in our data. The MBR data have been validated and found to correspond well with medical records [18, 19]. Due to the personal identification number awarded at birth or migration to all citizens, mothers, their drug purchases and children are reliably identified in the registers.
Use of register-based data has also limitations, as drug compliance cannot be confirmed. Women often discontinue drugs when they find out that they are pregnant and this applies also for antipsychotics [33]. However, we included analyses of women purchasing S-GAs in at least two trimesters, suggesting compliance. One limitation is that we have no information on the severity of maternal illness and the possibility of residual confounding by behavioral factors, such as alcohol and illicit drug use, which were not available in the register data. Yet, use of these substances strongly correlates with smoking included in our analyses.
Conclusion
Prenatal exposure to S-GAs is associated with an increased risk of pregnancy complications related to impaired glucose metabolism. Neonatal problems are common and occur similarly in S-GA and F-GA users.
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Maria Ellfolk: conceptualization, methodology, writing-original draft preparation
Maarit K Leinonen: methodology, data curation, software, statistics, validation, writing, and editing
Mika Gissler: methodology, data curation, software, statistics, writing, and editing
Anna-Maria Lahesmaa-Korpinen: data curation, software, statistics
Leena Saastamoinen: conceptualization, methodology, writing-original draft preparation
Marja-Leena Nurminen: conceptualization, methodology, editing
Heli Malm: conceptualization, methodology, writing-original draft preparation, reviewing and editing, supervision
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Ellfolk, M., Leinonen, M.K., Gissler, M. et al. Second-generation antipsychotics and pregnancy complications. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 76, 107–115 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-019-02769-z
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