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BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH
Volume 111, Issue 16, Pages 1145-1153Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bdr2.1580
Keywords
administrative claims databases; data mining; genital herpes; multiple hypothesis testing; preterm birth
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- March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at Stanford University [MOD PR625253]
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences [UL1 TR001085]
- Stanford Child Health Research Institute
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Background Our goal was to develop an approach that can systematically identify potential associations between medication prescribed in pregnancy and spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) by mining large administrative claims databases containing hundreds of medications. One such association that we illustrate emerged with antiviral medications used for herpes treatment. Methods IBM MarketScan (R) databases (2007-2016) were used. A pregnancy cohort was established using International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9/10) codes. Multiple hypothesis testing and the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure that limited false discovery rate at 5% revealed, among 863 medications, five that showed odds ratios (ORs) <1. The statistically strongest was an association between antivirals and sPTB that we illustrate as a real example of our approach, specifically for treatment of genital herpes (GH). Three groups of women were identified based on diagnosis of GH and treatment during the first 36 weeks of pregnancy: (a) GH without treatment; (b) GH treated with antivirals; (c) no GH or treatment. Results We identified 2,538,255 deliveries. 0.98% women had a diagnosis of GH. Among them, 60.0% received antiviral treatment. Women with treated GH had OR < 1, (OR [95% CI] = 0.91 [0.85, 0.98]). In contrast, women with untreated GH had a small increased risk of sPTB (OR [95% CI] =1.22 [1.14, 1.32]). Conclusions Data-driven approaches can effectively generate new hypotheses on associations between medications and sPTB. This analysis led us to examine the association with GH treatment. While unknown confounders may impact these findings, our results indicate that women with untreated GH have a modest increased risk of sPTB.
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