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- Title
Maternal Common Cold or Fever During Pregnancy and the Risk of Orofacial Clefts in the Offspring: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
- Authors
Shi, Fang-ping; Huang, Ying-ying; Dai, Qiao-qun; Chen, Yu-lu; Jiang, Hai-yin; Liang, Si-Yuan
- Abstract
Objective : The common cold and/or an associated fever during pregnancy have/has been suspected to harm the developing fetus. We sought possible correlations between a maternal common cold or fever during pregnancy and the risk of orofacial clefts in the offspring. Design : We systematically searched PubMed and Embase using appropriate keywords, and we checked the reference lists of retrieved articles. We used random-effects models to estimate overall relative risks. Main Outcome Measure(s) : Incidence of orofacial clefts. Results : We included 13 case-control studies. Modest but statistically significant associations were found between a maternal common cold and cleft lip with or without a cleft palate (CL/CP) (odds ratio [OR] 2.17; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.66–2.83) and a cleft palate only (CPO) (OR 3.08; 95% CI 1.5–6.34). Furthermore, maternal fever was also associated with an increased risk of CL/CP (OR 1.91, 95% CI 1.3–2.8) and CPO (OR 1.48, 95% CI 0.83–2.63) in the offspring. Further analyses of maternal influenza (alone) yielded similar results. Conclusions : Although evidence of heterogeneity should be carefully evaluated, our findings suggest that maternal common cold or fever during pregnancy may be associated with a greater risk of CL/CP or CPO in the offspring. Future cohort studies using valid assessments of maternal common cold exposure during pregnancy that consider the severity of fever are needed to clarify the contribution of maternal common cold or fever status to the risk of orofacial clefts in children.
- Subjects
CLEFT lip -- Risk factors; ONLINE information services; FEVER; META-analysis; MEDICAL information storage &; retrieval systems; CONFIDENCE intervals; SYSTEMATIC reviews; PREGNANT women; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MEDLINE; ODDS ratio; COMMON cold; FETUS
- Publication
Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal, 2023, Vol 60, Issue 4, p446
- ISSN
1055-6656
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10556656211067695