The study found that the rate was surprisingly high.
this week, the study analyzed the data of over one million babies born in Denmark over a 20-year period ending in 2016. They found that kids born to dads who took Metformin in a 90-day window before conception had a 5.2 percent chance of a birth defect, while kids born to dads who didn’t take the medication had a 3.3 percent chance of birth defects.
“The rate per se was surprisingly high,” the paper’s first author, Maarten Wensink, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of Southern Denmark,This is especially significant because Metformin is an extremely common drug that is only gaining in popularity and usage due to the steeply increasing rates of type 2 diabetes and obesity in the United States., up from 41 million in 2004. That’s 26 percent of our population.
It’s important, though, to talk to your doctor before making any decisions about stopping the drug based on one study — Metformin is popular because it’s often the best option to keep diabetes patients healthy, and stopping the drug could have adverse effects. The study did not find a link between birth defects and other types of diabetes drugs. It also saw no increase in birth defects in the children conceived outside the 90-day window of Metformin usage, which implies that the drug may affect a man’s sperm.
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