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. 2013 Aug 21;347:f4877. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4877

Table 3.

 High dimensional propensity score analysis*. Figures are odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals adjusted for 10ths of propensity score, comparing risk for postpartum hemorrhage in pregnant women with current antidepressant exposure

Total† No (%) of women with postpartum hemorrhage Covariates in propensity score model
Delivery year Investigator defined‡ Investigator defined‡ and empirically defined
SRI monotherapy 10 203 415 (4.1) 1.46 (1.32 to 1.61) 1.47 (1.32 to 1.64) 1.52 (1.35 to 1.71)
Unexposed 53 348 1479 (2.8) Reference Reference Reference
Non-SRI monotherapy 1162 45 (3.9) 1.39 (1.06 to 1.82) 1.49 (1.12 to 1.98) 1.39 (1.03 to 1.89)
Unexposed 52192 1475 (2.8) Reference Reference Reference

SRI=serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

*Women with highest and lowest 2.5% of propensity score excluded from analyses.

†Numbers are for trimmed population in investigator defined and empirically defined covariates analysis.

‡Investigator defined covariates: delivery year, age, race, multiple pregnancy, diabetes, coagulopathy, number of outpatient mood/anxiety disorder diagnoses, number of inpatient mood/anxiety disorder diagnoses, psychotic disorder, other mental health disorder, pain indication, sleep disorder, anticonvulsant dispensing, benzodiazepine dispensing, aspirin dispensing, heparin dispensing, low molecular weight heparin dispensing, and number of outpatient visits and days in hospital during baseline.