The anti-acne medicine isotretinoin, which can cause defects in a developing fetus, is now used by almost 2 in 1,000 girls and women of childbearing age, according to analysis of German database of 25 million (IMAGE)

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The anti-acne medicine isotretinoin, which can cause defects in a developing fetus, is now used by almost 2 in 1,000 girls and women of childbearing age, according to analysis of German database of 25 million

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Age-specific and age-standardized prevalence with 95% confidence intervals (shaded area) of isotretinoin use per 1,000 girls and women aged 13-49 years between 2004 and 2019 in the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database (GePaRD).

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Reinold J, et al., 2024, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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