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Record W4414122109 · doi:10.3138/canlivj-2024-0052

An association between antibiotic usage during pregnancy and the subsequent development of autoimmune hepatitis

2025· article· en· W4414122109 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Gerald Y. Minuk, Lindsay E. Nicolle, Marina Yogendran, Julia Uhanova

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Liver Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicLiver Diseases and Immunity
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPregnancyAntibioticsAutoimmune hepatitisAutoimmune diseaseHepatitisImmune system

Abstract

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Background: Whether the incidence of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is higher in women prescribed antibiotics during pregnancy remains to be determined. Methods: Administrative databases and hospital abstracts were reviewed to identify all pregnant women in the province of Manitoba from 1996 to 2001 who were prescribed antibiotics during pregnancy and subsequently diagnosed with AIH until 2020. Results: In this study, 70,666 pregnant women were identified during the 5-year period. Antibiotics were prescribed in 11,654 (16.5%). AIH was subsequently diagnosed in more mothers who were prescribed antibiotics than in those who were not (82/11,654 [0.7%] versus 166/58,975 [0.28%], p <0.0001). The number of antibiotic prescriptions was higher in mothers who subsequently developed AIH than in those who were prescribed antibiotics but did not develop AIH (0.56 [SD 1.09] versus 0.24 [SD 0.67], p <0.0001) as were the prescribed durations of treatment (4.19 [SD 7.72] versus 2.03 [SD 7.55] days, p <0.0001). The mean ages (25.9 [SD 6.0] and 26.8 [SD 5.8]; years) and times to AIH diagnosis (10.6 [SD 4.9] and 10.8 [SD 4.8] years) were similar in mothers who were prescribed and not prescribed antibiotics and developed AIH. The relative risk of developing AIH in antibiotic recipients was 2.5 (95% CI 1.92–3.25, p <0.0001), and the hazard ratio was 2.58 (95% CI 1.98–3.36, p <0.001). Conclusions: These results describe an association between mothers prescribed antibiotics during pregnancy and the subsequent development of AIH.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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