期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 188, 期 4, 页码 768-775出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwy288
关键词
acetaminophen; attention-deficit; hyperactivity disorder; negative control exposure analysis; neurological development; pregnancy; prenatal exposure delayed effects; uncontrolled confounding
资金
- National Cancer Institute [UM1 CA176726]
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) [P30 ES000002]
- National Institutes of Health/NIEHS career development award [K99ES026729, R00ES026729]
- National Institutes of Health [T32 ES 007069, P30 ES09089]
Frequent maternal use of acetaminophen in pregnancy has been linked to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, but concerns regarding uncontrolled confounding remain. In this article, we illustrate use of the negative control exposure (NCE) approach to evaluate uncontrolled confounding bias in observational studies on pregnancy drug safety and explain the causal assumptions behind the method. We conducted an NCE analysis and evaluated the associations between maternal acetaminophen use during different exposure periods and ADHD among 8,856 children born in 1993-2005 to women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study II cohort. Information on regular maternal acetaminophen use was collected prospectively in biennial questionnaires. A total of 721 children (8.1%) in the cohort had been diagnosed with ADHD as reported by the mothers. Our NCE analysis suggested that only acetaminophen use at the time of pregnancy was associated with childhood ADHD (odds ratio = 1.34, 95% confidence interval: 1.05, 1.72), and the effect estimates for the 2 NCE periods (about 4 years before and 4 years after the pregnancy) were null. Our findings corroborate those of prior reports suggesting that prenatal acetaminophen exposure may influence neurodevelopment. The lack of an association between acetaminophen use in the pre- and postpregnancy exposure periods and ADHD provides assurance that uncontrolled time-invariant factors do not explain this association.
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