“…No relationship was found between concomitant thiopurine use and the prevalence of preterm birth in 21 studies reporting the number of participants receiving thiopurine 17,23,25,38,[41][42][43][45][46][47]50,54,56,58,59,61,[68][69][70][71]74 (slope, 0.067; 95% CI, -0.192 to 0.327). No relationship between the risk of preterm birth and the percentage of participants with disease activity at conception were identified in 20 studies 17,23,25,38,40,41,43,50,[53][54][55][56]58,59,62,64,65,68,69,74 (slope, 0.233; 95% CI, -0.134 to 0.601). The overall pooled prevalence of preterm birth was 9% (95% CI, 7%-11%; I 2 ¼ 89.9%) with biologics use in pregnancy, comparable with a rate of preterm birth of 10% in a cohort of 1960 women with IBD including active disease 81 and 11% in the background population.…”