title: [A multicenter study on drug use during pregnancy in Spain (I). Methods and the demographic characteristics of the population studied. The Working Group of the DUP (Drug Use in Pregnancy) of Spain].
abstract: Between January and June 1988, the Spanish Society of Clinical Pharmacology carried out a multicentric study on drug use during pregnancy. Twenty hospitals from 15 cities participated in the study. The study includes 1,371 women who delivered 1,406 newborns. In this paper the sociological and health characteristics of the participating women--age, years of education, planning of pregnancy, visits to the obstetrician, methods for the diagnosis of pregnancy, hospitalizations during pregnancy, toxic habits and lactation--are referred. The characteristics of the newborns are also presented: mode of delivery, gestational age, birthweight and prevalence of congenital malformations and of neonatal pathologies during the first hours of life.
mesh_terms: D000014:Abnormalities, Drug-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology; D000367:Age Factors; D001724:Birth Weight; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Estudio multicéntrico sobre el uso de medicamentos durante el embarazo en España (I). Métodos y características demográficas de la población estudiada. Grupo de Trabajo DUP España.