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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 19.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2014 Jun 19;370(25):2397–2407. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1312828

Table 2.

Absolute risk for congenital cardiac malformations in women with and without antidepressant exposure by class; overall cohort. Medicaid Analytic eXtract, 2000–2007.

Exposure groups Total Any cardiac malformation RVOTO VSD Other cardiac malformation
Events Risk (/10,000) Events Risk (/10,000) Events Risk (/10,000) Events Risk (/10,000)
Unexposed 885,115 6,403 72.3 1,045 11.8 3,212 36.3 3,232 36.5
All antidepressants 64,389 580 90.1 84 13.1 286 44.4 318 49.4
SSRI 46,144 416 90.2 61 13.2 201 43.6 226 49.0
 Paroxetine 11,126 93 83.6 16 14.4 44 39.6 48 43.1
 Sertraline 14,040 129 91.9 17 12.1 63 44.9 71 50.6
 Fluoxetine 11,048 99 89.6 16 14.5 48 43.5 55 49.8
TCA 5,954 42 70.5 8 13.4 24 40.3 18 30.2
SNRI 6,904 75 108.6 12 17.4 39 56.5 38 55.0
Other 7,055 74 104.9 8 11.3 31 43.9 46 65.2
Bupropion 8,856 76 85.8 11 12.4 39 44.0 49 55.3