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Background
From the Departments of Epidemiology In various countries, metoclopramide is the antiemetic drug of choice in pregnant
and Health Services Evaluation (I.M., A.L.), women, but insufficient information exists regarding its safety in pregnancy.
Pediatrics (R.G.), and Obstetrics and Gy-
necology (E.S., A.W.), Faculty of Health
Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Methods
Negev; Soroka Medical Center (R.G., E.S., We investigated the safety of metoclopramide use during the first trimester of preg
A.W.), Clalit Health Services (Southern
District) (R.G., A.W.), and the BeMORE nancy by linking a computerized database of medications dispensed between Janu
Collaboration (R.G., A.L.) all in Beer- ary 1, 1998, and March 31, 2007, to all women registered in the Clalit Health Ser
Sheva, Israel; the Motherisk Program, vices, southern district of Israel, with computerized databases containing maternal
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Hos-
pital for Sick Children, University of To- and infant hospital records from the district hospital during the same period. We
ronto, and the BeMORE Collaboration, assessed associations between the use of metoclopramide in pregnancy and adverse
Toronto (G.K.); and the Department of outcomes for the fetus, adjusting for parity, maternal age, ethnic group, presence
Medicine, University of Western Ontario,
London, Canada (G.K.). Address reprint or absence of maternal diabetes, smoking status, and presence or absence of peri
requests to Dr. Gorodischer at the Soroka partum fever.
Medical Center, P.O. Box 151, Beer-Sheva
84101, Israel, or at rafaelg@bgu.ac.il.
Results
N Engl J Med 2009;360:2528-35. There were 113,612 singleton births during the study period. A total of 81,703 of
Copyright 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society.
the infants (71.9%) were born to women registered in Clalit Health Services; 3458
of them (4.2%) were exposed to metoclopramide during the first trimester of preg
nancy. Exposure to metoclopramide, as compared with no exposure to the drug, was
not associated with significantly increased risks of major congenital malformations
(5.3% and 4.9%, respectively; odds ratio, 1.04; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.89 to
1.21), low birth weight (8.5% and 8.3%; odds ratio, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.89 to 1.14), pre
term delivery (6.3% and 5.9%; odds ratio, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.99 to 1.34), or perinatal
death (1.5% and 2.2%; odds ratio, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.55 to 1.38). The results were mate
rially unchanged when therapeutic abortions of exposed and unexposed fetuses were
included in the analysis.
Conclusions
In this large cohort of infants, exposure to metoclopramide in the first trimester was
not associated with significantly increased risks of any of several adverse outcomes.
These findings provide reassurance regarding the safety of metoclopramide for the
fetus when the drug is given to women to relieve nausea and vomiting during preg
nancy.
A
s many as 50 to 80% of pregnant singleton delivery at Soroka Medical Center were
women have nausea and vomiting during included in the analyses. The study period ex
the first trimester. These symptoms may tended from January 1, 1998, through March 31,
be severe and can continue beyond the first trimes 2007. Approximately half of the infants in the dis
ter.1-4 Pregnant women and health professionals trict are born to Jewish parents, and half to Bed
often refrain from pharmacologic treatment of ouin Muslim parents.
morning sickness owing to fears of teratogenic
effects.1-4 In the case of more than 90% of the Databases
drugs approved by the Food and Drug Adminis The clinical, medication, and demographic data
tration in the past 20 years, there are insufficient related to members of Clalit Health Services are
data from human studies to determine whether the aggregated in a Clalit Health Services database and
benefits of therapy exceed the risk to the fetus.5 can be accessed at the level of an individual mem
In the United States and Canada, the drugs of ber. The medication data in the database include
choice for the treatment of nausea and vomiting information about the date on which drugs were
during pregnancy are pyridoxine and doxylamine, dispensed, the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical
whereas metoclopramide is used only in the most (ATC) classification codes of the drugs (including
severe cases.6 Although the label for metoclopra the commercial and generic names), the dose
mide does not include the indications of nausea schedules, and the dose dispensed in terms of the
and vomiting during pregnancy, metoclopramide defined daily dose (i.e., the assumed average main
is the antiemetic drug of choice in some European tenance dose per day).
countries and in Israel.7 There is extensive experi Two computerized databases at Soroka Medical
ence with the use of this medication in nonpreg Center, which draw information directly from
nant persons, with evidence of overall low rates of original sources, were used. All patients records
adverse events when it is used as recommended.8 at Soroka Medical Center originate from a single
Despite its extensive use, only a few studies database, which includes demographic informa
have assessed the safety to the fetus of maternal tion and hospitalization dates recorded at the time
exposure to metoclopramide during the first tri of the womans admission to the hospital and at
mester,9-13 and the relatively small sizes of these the time of the infants birth. The Obstetrics and
studies limited their power to detect adverse ef Gynecology Department database includes infor
fects of the drug. We designed the present study mation on maternal health status during preg
to investigate, in a large cohort of pregnant wom nancy and delivery, maternal age, gestational age
en, the safety for the fetus of exposure to meto at delivery (the number of days since the last men
clopramide during the first trimester. strual period), perinatal death, parity, ethnic group,
self-reported smoking status during pregnancy,
Me thods and infant birth weight and Apgar score at 1 and
5 minutes. The diagnoses are reviewed routinely
Study Population by a trained medical secretary before entry into the
We performed a retrospective cohort study involv database.
ing members of Clalit Health Services, the largest The other electronic database at Soroka Medi
health maintenance organization in Israel. Clalit cal Center that was used in the present study was
Health Services insures 70% of the population 15 the Demog-ICD9 database, which includes demo
to 49 years of age in the Beer-Sheva district in graphic and medical diagnoses during hospitaliza
southern Israel; the district had 565,200 inhabit tion, with medical diagnoses drawn directly from
ants in 2006.14 Soroka Medical Center is the re the medical records. Additional diagnoses related
gional hospital, at which 98% of deliveries in the to the infant at discharge are coded and included
district take place; it is estimated that the same in the infants Demog-ICD9 record. All diagnoses
proportion of women enrolled in Clalit Health Ser are classified according to the International Classifi-
vices deliver at Soroka Medical Center.15 cation of Diseases, 9th revision (ICD-9).
All girls and women 15 to 49 years of age who The three databases one from Clalit Health
were registered in Clalit Health Services and were Services and two from Soroka Medical Center
living in the Beer-Sheva district and who had a were encoded and linked by personal identifica
tion numbers (numbers that are given at birth by The following outcomes were investigated for
the Interior Ministry and used throughout life) to both live neonates and stillborns: major and minor
create a registry of medications dispensed during malformations, clusters (i.e., similar malforma
pregnancy and of pregnancy outcomes. tions in more than one infant) and multiple con
The study was approved by the local institu genital malformations (i.e., more than one mal
tional ethics committee in accordance with the formation in one infant), subclasses of major
principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. In accor congenital malformations, perinatal death, pre
dance with Ministry of Health regulations, the term birth (birth at a gestational age of <37
institutional ethics committee did not require writ weeks), low birth weight (<2500 g), very low birth
ten informed consent because the data were ob weight (<1500 g), and Apgar score at 1 minute
tained anonymously from medical files, with no and 5 minutes after birth (Apgar 7 or 8). A sub
participation of patients. group analysis was performed to compare the
outcome for infants of women who received meto
Study Design clopramide and refilled the prescription at least
The exposed group comprised the infants of wom once with the outcome in the unexposed group.
en to whom metoclopramide (ATC code A03FA01) We used the definitions of major and minor
was dispensed during the first trimester of preg congenital malformations that were developed by
nancy (at 13 weeks gestation or earlier). The first the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Pro
day of the last menstrual period was defined as gram of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre
the first day of gestation. Use of metoclopramide vention (CDC).17-19 Chromosomal diseases were
was also classified in terms of the total number excluded. In subclass analyses of major malforma
of defined daily doses dispensed; the defined daily tions, the following specific defects were exam
dose of metoclopramide is 30 mg.16 In Israel, all ined: anencephaly (ICD-9 code, 740); spina bifida
metoclopramide formulations contain 10 mg of (741); other anomaly of the nervous system (742);
metoclopramide in each tablet, and the drug is usu anomalies of the eye (743); anomalies of the ear,
ally prescribed for 7 days at a dose of 30 mg per face and neck (744); bulbus cordis anomalies and
day. We divided the total defined daily doses dis anomalies of cardiac septal closure (745); other
pensed into the following categories: 1 to 7, 8 to anomalies of the heart (746); other anomalies of
14, 15 to 21, and 22 or more. For example, 7 de the circulatory system (747); anomalies of the re
fined daily doses would be a total of 21 metoclopra spiratory system (748); cleft palate and lip (749);
mide tablets of 10 mg each taken either as 30 mg other anomalies of the upper alimentary tract
per day for 7 days or as a total of 210 mg taken (750); other anomalies of the digestive system
over the course of the first trimester. The unex (751); genital anomalies (752); anomalies of the
posed group comprised the infants of all women urinary system (753); musculoskeletal deformities
who did not take metoclopramide during the first (754); other anomalies of the limbs (755); other
trimester over the course of the study period. We musculoskeletal anomalies (756); and anomalies
performed a secondary analysis of data from in of the integument (757).
fants whose mothers refilled their prescriptions The following potential confounders were in
at least once. cluded in the statistical analysis: maternal age,
Data on outcomes with respect to the infants parity, self-reported smoking status during preg
were ascertained from the hospital records of each nancy, presence or absence of maternal diabetes
mother and newborn, which had the same unique mellitus, presence or absence of peripartum fever
number for the hospitalization. The Soroka Med (defined as a temperature of 38C or higher), and
ical Center databases were linked by this single ethnic group (i.e., Jewish or Bedouin Muslim).
hospitalization number. The mothers and infants
personal identification numbers were also used Adherence
for linking data. Data on therapeutic abortions Self-reported information to confirm the use of
were manually collected from the registry of the metoclopramide was not available. In an attempt
Committee for Termination of Pregnancies at So to estimate the rate of adherence to prescribed drug
roka Medical Center, encoded, and linked to the treatment in this cohort more generally, we looked
Soroka and Clalit databases with the use of the at the medication-adherence rate in two subgroups
encoded womans personal identification number. of our Clalit cohort: women with deep-vein throm
Table 2. Odds Ratios for Adverse Outcomes after Intrauterine Exposure to Metoclopramide during the First Trimester,
as Compared with Nonexposure.
* The odds ratios for all outcomes except major and minor congenital malformations were adjusted for maternal age,
ethnic group, presence or absence of maternal diabetes, maternal smoking status, presence or absence of peripartum
fever, and parity. For major and minor congenital malformations, the odds ratios were adjusted for maternal age, eth-
nic group, presence or absence of maternal diabetes, maternal smoking status, and parity.
Owing to missing data on Apgar scores at 1 minute for some infants, the percentages were calculated on the basis of
3357 infants in the exposed group and 75,133 in the unexposed group.
clopramide during the first trimester of preg or perinatal death (Table 2). Similarly, no differ
nancy was not significantly associated with an ences between the exposed and unexposed groups
increased risk of minor congenital malformations were found in the rates of low birth weight or very
(Table 2) or of multiple malformations (2.5% [85 low birth weight (Table 2).
infants] and 2.3% [1832 infants] in the exposed There was no significant doseresponse effect
and unexposed groups, respectively; adjusted odds in the association between metoclopramide and
ratio, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.70 to 1.21). No significant the risk of major congenital malformations (Table
associations were found between subclasses of 3). In unadjusted analyses, the frequency of major
major congenital malformations and exposure to congenital malformations in the group exposed
metoclopramide during the first trimester of preg to 22 or more defined daily doses (6.1%) appeared
nancy (see Table 1 in the Supplementary Appen to be greater than the frequency in the groups
dix, available with the full text of this article at with less exposure (5.5%, 4.3%, and 4.2% in the
NEJM.org). In addition, no unexpected cluster of groups that were exposed to 1 to 7, 8 to 14, and 15
anomalies was observed in infants exposed to to 21 defined daily doses, respectively) and greater
metoclopramide during the first trimester of preg than the frequency in the unexposed group (4.9%),
nancy. but there was no significant trend according to
In subgroup analyses stratified according to the defined daily doses either in the univariate
ethnic group, metoclopramide was not signifi analysis (P=0.55 for trend) or in the analysis ad
cantly associated with an increased rate of major justed for maternal age, ethnic group, presence
congenital malformations in Jews (adjusted odds or absence of maternal diabetes, maternal smok
ratio, 1.08; 95% CI, 0.78 to 1.49) or in Bedouins ing status, and parity (P=0.82 for trend in mul
(odds ratio, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.86 to 1.22; P=0.93 for tivariate analysis).
the test of homogeneity). Exposure to metoclopra In addition, 758 of the 3458 mothers (21.7%)
mide was also not associated with significantly refilled their prescription for metoclopramide at
increased risks of preterm birth, low Apgar scores, least once. The rate of major congenital malfor
Metoclopramide has been extensively used for de None 3834/78,245 (4.9) 1.00 (reference category)
cades to treat nausea and vomiting in pregnant 17 138/2502 (5.5) 1.08 (0.911.29)
women, despite a lack of data on the safety of the 814 29/674 (4.3) 0.86 (0.591.25)
drug in pregnancy. In this large, population- 1521 5/118 (4.2) 0.84 (0.342.05)
based cohort, we found no significant associa 22 10/164 (6.1) 1.23 (0.652.34)
tion between metoclopramide treatment in the
* The defined daily dose is the assumed average maintenance dose per day for
first trimester and adverse outcomes for the fetus, a drug when it is used in adults for its main indication; the defined daily dose
including congenital malformations, perinatal of metoclopramide is 30 mg,16 usually dispensed in 10-mg tablets. Thus, 7 de-
death, low birth weight, and low Apgar scores. fined daily doses would be a total of 21 tablets of 10 mg each taken either as
30 mg per day for 7 days or as a total of 210 mg taken over the course of the
Until now, the assumption that the use of first trimester.
metoclopramide in pregnancy is not associated Odds ratios were adjusted for maternal age, ethnic group, presence or ab-
with congenital malformations has been based on sence of maternal diabetes, maternal smoking status, and parity.
studies with small samples, totaling 800 pregnan
cies: a record-linkage study,10 a retrospective con A limitation of our report is the possibility that
trol study,12 and two prospective observational some outcomes may have been misclassified, be
studies.11,13 Our findings are consistent with the cause the classification of outcomes was based on
results of those studies. The absence of a signifi administrative data rather than on a review of
cant association in our study between exposure to medical records. Several studies have used multi
metoclopramide during the first trimester and center administrative or provincial databases, with
low birth weight, very low birth weight, and pre variations in coding of medical diagnoses across
term birth is also consistent with the findings in and within databases.25,26 In contrast, we obtained
most of the previous, smaller studies.12,13,22 diagnostic information from databases of a single
Soroka Medical Center is a district hospital hospital, which drew data only from the medical
where practically all deliveries in the region take record; diagnoses of congenital malformations
place; all infants are examined after birth in the were made under the supervision of neonatologists
Neonatology Department, under the supervision who were experts in the field of congenital mal
of board-certified neonatologists. This may ex formations. The accuracy of the databases used
plain the higher rate of detection of congenital in this study is further supported by the observed
malformations in the current study than in pre inverse association between smoking and the use
vious studies. Higher rates of congenital malfor of metoclopramide, a finding that has been re
mations have been documented among Bedouins ported previously.27 High estrogen levels are one
than among Jews, a finding that is possibly attrib of the suspected causes of nausea and vomiting
utable to increased rates of consanguinity among during pregnancy, and maternal smoking has been
Bedouins.23,24 linked to reduced estrogen levels.27
A strength of our study, in contrast to previ The databases used in our study contained in
ous studies,10-13 was the availability of information formation regarding metoclopramide that was
on the metoclopramide dose. Despite the large dispensed to pregnant women, but data on the
size of our study, the fact that the duration of ex degree of adherence to metoclopramide therapy
posure averaged about 1 week means that the were not available. We found that rates of medi
number of fetuses who were actually exposed dur cation adherence were more than 90% in two
ing any particular period that is critical for em subgroups of our cohort (women with deep-vein
bryonic development was much smaller than the thrombosis and women with familial Mediterra
total number of exposed fetuses. Nonetheless, our nean fever), but it is unclear whether these high
study addresses the typical exposure of the fetus adherence rates would be generalizable to wom
to metoclopramide among women who have nau en with nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
sea and vomiting associated with pregnancy. A recent study that used the same database at
Clalit Health Services showed that the overall ad fects of metoclopramide. However, we attempted
herence to iron supplements dispensed for Israeli to reduce possible confounding by excluding twin
infants was high, as confirmed by laboratory pregnancies and pregnancies in which the fetus
tests.28 Previous studies have shown that comput had Downs syndrome. Twin pregnancies are as
erized pharmacy records provide accurate medi sociated with increased risks of nausea and vom
cation data and have high rates of concordance iting as compared with singleton pregnancies27,34
with medication use reported by patients in gen (potentially increasing the likelihood that meto
eral29-31 and by pregnant women specifically.32 clopramide would be prescribed) and are indepen
Nevertheless, it is possible that more doses of dently associated with increased risks of low birth
metoclopramide were prescribed and dispensed weight, preterm delivery, and congenital malfor
than were ingested. The observation that the out mations. Similarly, a pregnancy in which the fetus
comes were similar between the one fifth of has Downs syndrome is associated with a reduced
women who refilled their prescription of meto risk of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy but
clopramide at least once and the total cohort an increased risk of congenital malformations, as
provides further evidence of the safety of the compared with a pregnancy in which the fetus
medication in pregnancy. does not have Downs syndrome; inclusion of these
Like most published studies of pregnancy out pregnancies could have led to an underestimation
comes after exposure to a drug, our study does not of the risk associated with metoclopramide.
include data on spontaneous abortions. However, In summary, this large cohort study shows that
a study that included such data did not show a exposure to metoclopramide in the first trimes
significant association between exposure to meto ter of pregnancy is not associated with signifi
clopramide during the first trimester and the cantly increased risks of congenital malforma
risk of spontaneous abortion.13 tions, low birth weight, or perinatal death. These
Given the observational design of our study, data provide reassurance about the safety of meto
we cannot exclude the possibility of confounding. clopramide use for nausea and vomiting associ
It is likely that women who took metoclopramide ated with pregnancy.
had more nausea and vomiting during pregnan Dr. Koren reports receiving consulting and lecture fees and
grant support from Duchesnay. No other potential conflict of
cy than did women who did not take the drug. interest relevant to this article was reported.
A significant association has been reported be We thank Professor Ilana Shoham-Vardi, Department of Epi
tween nausea and vomiting during pregnancy and demiology, Ben-Gurion University; Dr. Daniela Landau, Depart
ment of Neonatology, Soroka Medical Center; and members of
more favorable pregnancy outcomes33; this asso the computer units of Clalit Southern District and Soroka Medi
ciation might potentially mask some adverse ef cal Center.
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