Research Article
Exposure to Mebendazole and Pyrvinium during Pregnancy: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study
Table 1
Characteristics of exposed and unexposed women.
| Drug exposure | Pyrvinium
(%) | Mebendazole
(%) | Both drugs
(%) | Unexposed
(%) |
| Age | | | | | <20 | 33 (2.5) | 28 (1.1) | 4 (0.8) | 19 649 (2.8) | 20–24 | 178 (11.1) | 209 (8.1) | 43 (8.1) | 111 765 (15.7) | 25–29 | 501 (31.2) | 772 (30.0) | 147 (27.5) | 274 107 (38.4) | 30–34 | 637 (39.7) | 1069 (41.5) | 230 (43.1) | 224 422 (31.4) | >35 | 257 (16.0) | 497 (19.3) | 110 (20.6) | 84 242 (11.8) | value* | | | | |
| Income | | | | | Quartile 1 | 398 (24.8) | 655 (25.4) | 119 (22.3) | 178476 (25.0) | Quartile 2 | 385 (24.0) | 680 (26.4) | 117 (21.9) | 178466 (25.0) | Quartile 3 | 428 (26.7) | 614 (23.8) | 140 (26.2) | 178466 (25.0) | Quartile 4 | 395 (24.6) | 877 (24.3) | 158 (29.6) | 178470 (25.0) | value* | | | | |
| Parity | | | | | 0 | 309 (19.2) | 229 (8.9) | 55 (10.3) | 310 740 (43.5) | 1 | 574 (35.7) | 860 (33.4) | 172 (32.2) | 266754 (37.4) | 2 | 499 (31.1) | 959 (37.2) | 209 (39.1) | 100 523 (14.1) | >2 | 224 (14.0) | 527 (20.5) | 98 (18.4) | 36 152 (5.1) | value* | | | | |
| Education class | | | | | Low | 566 (35.8) | 908 (35.8) | 176 (33.3) | 241803 (35.3) | Medium | 492 (31.1) | 747 (29.4) | 144 (27.3) | 222398 (32.4) | High | 522 (33.0) | 883 (34.8) | 208 (39.4) | 221316 (32.3) | value* | | | | |
| Smoking | | | | | Yes | 266 (18.0) | 435 (18.3) | 91 (18.4) | 121178 (18.2) | No | 1215 (82.0) | 1948 (81.8) | 405 (81.7) | 544192 (81.8) | value* | | | | |
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The values are results of χ 2 tests comparing each exposure group with the unexposed group.
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