Prenatal and postnatal exposure to acetaminophen in relation to autism spectrum and attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms

[TheLoneWolf]

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Will this change your care of pregnant patients with pain?

 

[Agast]

Study out of Spain. I don’t know how anyone could use retrospective pregnancy data to draw any conclusions.

Also googling around about Spanish pregnancies

Spanish women leaving it too late to have children, medics warn

With more waiting until their 30s to get pregnant, fertility treatments are ever more common

english.elpais.com

Interesting the country will pay for your fertility treatment under the age of 40!

 

[au bon pain]

Nah. Every time a study like this comes out, most of the OBs I know groan.

Retrospective data ≠ causation.

Needing over 70,000 pts to yield a + OR (and a fairly unimpressive one at that) suggests a pretty dubious signal to begin with.

Doesn’t seem to pass the face validity test...given how many women take apap during pregnancy, shouldn’t tons of kids have autism and ADHD?

Even if there does turn out to be some small connection, what would be a safer alternative PO med during pregnancy?

 

[Ducttape]

oxyxanax!