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Aspirin use during early pregnancy and the risk of congenital abnormalities: a population-based case-control study.

Nørgård B, Puhó E, Czeizel AE, Skriver MV, Sørensen HT

Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

It is still controversial whether aspirin use during pregnancy increases the risk of certain congenital abnormalities (in particular, neural tube defects, gastroschisis, and cleft lip +/- palate). We examined the risk of selected congenital abnormalities in a large case-control dataset from Hungary and found no increased risk of such congenital abnormalities.

Published 4 March 2005 in Am J Obstet Gynecol, 192(3): 922-3.
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