Mayura Shinde, Austin Cosgrove, Jennifer G Lyons, Maria E Kempner, Jolene Mosley, David Cole, Emma Hoffman, Elizabeth Messenger-Jones, José J Hernández-Muñoz, Danijela Stojanovic, Benedict H W Wong, Yueqin Zhao, Leyla Sahin, Susan E Andrade, Sengwee Toh, Wei Hua
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Abstract
Background: Pregnant women are at high risk for developing severe illness related to COVID-19. We adapted the "COVID-19 infectiOn aNd medicineS In pregnancy" (CONSIGN) study protocol as part of an international collaboration to examine medication use patterns among pregnancies in the US.
Methods: We identified eligible women aged 12-55 years with documented live-birth deliveries in the Sentinel Distributed Database who had at least one qualifying diagnosis for COVID-19 or a positive-confirmed test for SARS-CoV-2, by trimester of COVID-19 infection. We conducted two sets of analyses comparing medication groups and COVID-19 treatment utilization in the 30 days prior to or after COVID-19 among pregnancies with COVID-19 to: (1) pregnancies without COVID-19 during 6 months prior to or during pregnancy; and (2) non-pregnancy episodes with COVID-19.
Results: From 2020 to 2022, we identified 52 355 pregnancies with COVID-19 matched to 52 355 pregnancies without COVID-19 (assigned same matched COVID-19 date), and 40 518 matched non-pregnancy episodes with COVID-19. Outpatient medication use in the 30 days prior to or after the COVID-19 date (or matched date) was quite low (< 15%) among pregnancies with and without COVID-19. Non-pregnancy episodes with COVID-19 had higher use of all medication groups in 30 days prior to COVID-19. However, in the 30 days post-COVID-19, anti-bacterials, anti-inflammatories such as NSAIDs, and analgesics were more common, and COVID-19-specific medications were less frequently used (< 1%) among pregnancies with COVID-19. Assessing COVID-19 severity, more pregnancies had a non-severe COVID-19 diagnosis than non-pregnancy episodes with COVID-19 (87.2% vs. 79.9%).
Conclusions: In this retrospective evaluation, selected medication utilization was higher post-COVID-19 among pregnancies with COVID-19, compared to those without COVID-19 and to non-pregnancy episodes with COVID-19. However, the low use of COVID-19-specific medications underscores the need for a safety evaluation of therapies used for COVID-19 management in the pregnant population.
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The aim of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety is to provide an international forum for the communication and evaluation of data, methods and opinion in the discipline of pharmacoepidemiology. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed reports of original research, invited reviews and a variety of guest editorials and commentaries embracing scientific, medical, statistical, legal and economic aspects of pharmacoepidemiology and post-marketing surveillance of drug safety. Appropriate material in these categories may also be considered for publication as a Brief Report.
Particular areas of interest include:
design, analysis, results, and interpretation of studies looking at the benefit or safety of specific pharmaceuticals, biologics, or medical devices, including studies in pharmacovigilance, postmarketing surveillance, pharmacoeconomics, patient safety, molecular pharmacoepidemiology, or any other study within the broad field of pharmacoepidemiology;
comparative effectiveness research relating to pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices. Comparative effectiveness research is the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical condition, as these methods are truly used in the real world;
methodologic contributions of relevance to pharmacoepidemiology, whether original contributions, reviews of existing methods, or tutorials for how to apply the methods of pharmacoepidemiology;
assessments of harm versus benefit in drug therapy;
patterns of drug utilization;
relationships between pharmacoepidemiology and the formulation and interpretation of regulatory guidelines;
evaluations of risk management plans and programmes relating to pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices.