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Some Drugs Taken During Pregnancy May Impair Brain Development.(epilepsy drugs )
2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Certain epilepsy drugs taken during pregnancy may impair children's normal brain development, suggests research in the December 2000 issue of Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
Around one in three people taking anti-epileptics is a woman of reproductive age, and it is estimated that one in 250 pregnancies will be exposed to anti-epileptic drugs.
A retrospective survey was carried out in 1998 of over 1,000 women between the ages of 16 and 40 who were registered with the Mersey Regional Epilepsy Clinic. The Clinic is one of the largest epilepsy services in the United Kingdom.
Over 700 women responded. Their average age was 23 at the time of the birth, and almost half of them had given birth to just under 600 children among them. Four hundred of the children were of school age. Only 176 of the children had not been exposed to any anti-epileptic drugs while in the womb.
Children whose mothers had taken anti-epileptic drugs during pregnancy were 50% more likely ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Some Drugs Taken During Pregnancy May Impair Brain...