{"id":20663,"date":"2020-09-09T06:21:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T06:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=20663"},"modified":"2020-09-09T06:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T06:21:56","slug":"narcolepsy-drug-doesnt-raise-odds-for-birth-defects-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=20663","title":{"rendered":"Narcolepsy Drug Doesn’t Raise Odds for Birth Defects: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FRIDAY, Sept. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n

The narcolepsy<\/a> medicine modafinil<\/a> doesn’t appear to increase the risk of birth defects<\/a>, according to a new study that contradicts earlier research.<\/p>\n

“This study is based on twice as many pregnancies<\/a> as earlier studies, and we find no increase in the risk of malformation in infants exposed to modafinil<\/a> during pregnancy<\/a>,” lead author Carolyn Cesta, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said in an institute news release. She’s a researcher at the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology.<\/p>\n

The drug is used to improve wakefulness in adults with narcolepsy<\/a>, multiple sclerosis<\/a>-related fatigue<\/a> and, in some cases, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder<\/a>. However, previous research has linked modafinil with an increased risk of birth defects<\/a> in babies<\/a> born to mothers who took the medication while pregnant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To investigate that possible connection, researchers analyzed data from almost 2 million pregnancies<\/a> in Sweden and Norway between 2005 and 2017.<\/p>\n

They compared women who took modafinil from 30 days before conception<\/a> to the end of their first trimester<\/a> with women who didn’t take the drug.<\/p>\n

Of the 133 infants whose mothers took modafinil during pregnancy<\/a>, 2.6% were born with a major birth defect, compared with 2.1% of infants whose mothers didn’t take the drug. Researchers said the difference is not statistically significant.<\/p>\n

The study was published Sept. 1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“Our results show how important it is to combine data sources, ideally from several countries, when examining the impact on a fetus of a drug that relatively few people use,” said study co-author Kari Furu, a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.<\/p>\n

— Robert Preidt<\/p>\n

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