Obstetrical Outcomes of Patients with Epilepsy in a Canadian Tertiary Care Center (2014–2020)
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: Background: There is a paucity of data on the obstetrical outcomes of Canadian pregnant patients with epilepsy, which may differ from the average Canadian pregnancy and from other populations of pregnant patients with epilepsy. Methods: Pregnant patients with epilepsy were identified from a prospectively collected database of patients seen at the maternal-fetal medicine obstetrics program of Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto, Canada) between January 1, 2014, and November 20, 2020. Pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal outcome data were retrieved from this database and described using 95% binomial confidence intervals. Comparisons of obstetrical outcomes over the same period among the Canadian population average, obtained from publicly available national health data, were done using one-proportion Z-tests for nominal variables and one-sample t-tests for continuous variables. Results: In total, 282 pregnancies, from 224 patients, were included, which resulted in 274 live births. Mean maternal age was 32.8 years ( s.d. = 4.6; population average [μ] = 30.9; p < 0.01), and 53% were primiparous (CI 95% = 49%–61%; μ = 43%; p < 0.01). The observed rates of obstetrical complications were gestational hypertension 9% (CI 95% =6%–13%; μ=7%; p=0.19), gestational diabetes 5% (CI 95% = 3%–8%; μ = 9%; p = 0.02), cesarean section 44% (CI 95% = 38%–50%; μ = 28%; p < 0.01), postpartum hemorrhage 5% (CI 95% = 3%–8%; μ = 0.5%; p < 0.01), stillbirth 1% (CI 95% = 0%–2%; μ=1%; p > 0.99), and prematurity 9% (CI 95% = 6%–13%; μ = 8%; p = 0.44). Conclusion: In this cohort of Canadian pregnant patients with epilepsy from an urban tertiary care center, observed rates of obstetrical complications were rare and no higher than in the Canadian population over the same period, with the exception of cesarean section and postpartum hemorrhage. Future prospective studies that include primary care and rural settings are needed to increase the generalizability of those results.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".