Table 2.
Confounders and risk factors evaluated in studies of included studies
| Variables | Haervig et al, 2014[49] | Pottegard et al, 2014[52] | Bro et al, 2015[46] | Diav-Citrin et al, 2016[48] | Cohen et al, 2017[47] | Nörby et al, 2017[51] | Huybrechts et al, 2018[50] | Poulton et al, 2018[53] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maternal age | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × |
| Region | × | × | × | |||||
| Ethnicity | × | × | × | × | ||||
| Education | × | × | ||||||
| Body Mass Index, BMI | × | × | × | |||||
| Cohabitation | × | × | ||||||
| Year of conception | × | |||||||
| Year of delivery | × | × | × | |||||
| Year at initial contact | × | |||||||
| Gestational age | × | |||||||
| Parity/multiparty | × | × | × | × | × | |||
| Multifetal pregnancy | × | × | × | |||||
| Smoking status | × | × | × | × | × | |||
| Alcohol use | × | |||||||
| Other drug abuse or dependence | × | × | ||||||
| Psychiatric conditions | × | × | × | |||||
| Chronic comorbid medical conditions | × | × | × | × | ||||
| Marker of general comorbidity | × | × | ||||||
| Prescribed medications/co-medications | × | × | × | × | × | |||
| Proxies for health care utilization intensity | × |