Utilisation de médicaments durant la grossesse et l’allaitement : données d’un centre d’information sur les tératogènes
Teratogen Information Services (TIS) are giving information on the risks and benefits associated with medication use during pregnancy and lactation, to the health care providers and the public. IMAGe Center at the CHU Sainte-Justine in Quebec is a TIS which providing since 1997 a free telephone information service to the health care providers.   Two studies were conducted using the calls received at IMAGe Center. The first study included all the calls received between January 2004, and April 2007, concerning women who used or expected to use medication during pregnancy or lactation. The objectives of this study aimed to identify the most frequent medication classes, the indications of use, and the predictors of a call concerning them (associated maternal characteristics). Antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, benzodiazepines, and anti-psychotics represented the medication classes with the greater amount of calls. These results rise to the possibility that more information about the risks and benefits associated with the use of these medication classes during pregnancy and lactation is needed by the health care providers. Depression was in the top three of the most prevalent indications of use for the antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and anti-psychotics. Smoking was associated with the use of antidepressants and anti-psychotics during pregnancy, and with a call concerning the anti-inflammatory drugs during lactation. The second study included all the calls received between January 2003, and March 2008. This study aimed to identify the impact of the Health Canada (HC) warnings, concerning the risks of antidepressant use during pregnancy, and related to the rofecoxib market withdrawal, on the number of calls received to IMAGe. Time series of the weekly number of calls received demonstrated that the Health Canada warning on the risk of cardiac malformations associated with paroxetine use during the first trimester of pregnancy generated a statistically significant abrupt and permanent increase of the calls received at IMAGe about the antidepressants.  These studies ensure to better understand the information need of the health care providers concerning the risks and benefits of medication use during pregnancy and lactation.
Indications TIS (Teratology Information Service) Pregnancy Lactation Medications Predictors Time series Health Canada warning