This cross-sectional prospective nested cohort study aimed to assess the prevalence of use of medication before and during pregnancy and associated factors in women in a municipality in the countryside of Bahia State, Brazil. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire applied to pregnant women at their prenatal visits at health units. Prevalence rates for use of medication before and during pregnancy w...
The use of medication during pregnancy has been described in pharmacoepidemiological studies. Pregnant women may have health problems that often require the use of drugs, but there are numerous on the consequences to the fetus and to the pregnant woman. To guide the most appropriate therapeutic choice for a pregnant, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the medicines according to risk criteria i...