By Nancy Lapid

(Reuters) -Women who have undergone computed tomography imaging may be at slightly higher risk for pregnancy loss and birth defects in later pregnancies, according to findings from a large Canadian study.

The increase in risk is small and dependent on the number of CT scans women underwent before becoming pregnant, said study leader Dr. Camille Simard of Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.

Among more than 5.1 million pregnancies in Ontario, Canada between 1992 and 2023, 687,692 were in women who had been exposed to radiation from CT scans a month or more before conceiving, according to a report of the study in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The rate of spontaneous pregnancy loss due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth in mothers who had undergone one preconcep

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