{"id":590538,"date":"2026-04-07T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590538\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:41:09","slug":"inadvertent-glp-1-ra-use-during-pregnancy-not-linked-to-preterm-birth-risk-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590538\/","title":{"rendered":"Inadvertent GLP-1 RA use during pregnancy not linked to preterm birth risk, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preterm birth risk is not higher for women without diabetes who were taking GLP-1 receptor agonists around the time of conception, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>Few studies have looked at pregnancies and GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs), which are currently TGA category D: drugs that potentially cause fetal malformations or irreversible damage.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Danish researchers published a study in\u00a0Human Reproduction Open\u00a0that used prescription and birth data to identify 529 women \u2014 including 211 with diabetes \u2014 who filled a prescription for semaglutide or liraglutide within eight weeks of an estimated conception date.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with propensity score-matched pregnant women without a GLP-1 RA script, preterm birth was the only obstetric outcome associated with the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preterm birth risk is not higher for women without diabetes who were taking GLP-1 receptor agonists around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,1835,11910,91550,137,44,4390,64189,2169,8709,4793],"class_list":{"0":"post-590538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-diabetes","11":"tag-general-practice","12":"tag-glp-1-ra","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-obesity","16":"tag-obstetrics","17":"tag-pregnancy","18":"tag-reproductive-health","19":"tag-womens-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}