Cynthia Cassell,Cara Mai,Russel Rickard
Cynthia Cassell
Background: Regardless of where infants and children are delivered, diagnosed, or treated, an important aspect of population-based birth defects surveillance is ensuring the inclusion of children with birth defects in the...
Using registry data to suggest which birth defects may be more susceptible to artifactual clusters and trends [0.03%]
利用注册表数据建议哪些出生缺陷可能更容易出现人工集群和趋势
Peter H Langlois,Angela Scheuerle
Peter H Langlois
Background: Some birth defects appear to be more susceptible than others to artifactual prevalence variability over time or geographically. This article uses an empirical approach to try to identify them. ...
Using birth defects registry data to evaluate infant and childhood mortality associated with birth defects: an alternative to traditional mortality assessment using underlying cause of death statistics [0.03%]
利用出生缺陷登记数据评估出生缺陷相关的婴儿和儿童死亡率：一种替代传统的使用根本死因统计的死亡率评估方法
Glenn E Copeland,Russell S Kirby
Glenn E Copeland
Background: Although birth defects are a leading cause of death in infancy and early childhood, the proportion of all deaths to children with clinically diagnosed birth defects is not well documented. The study is intende...
Mary K Ethen,Mark A Canfield,Jorge Trevino
Mary K Ethen
Background: The Texas Birth Defects Registry (TBDR) does not access prenatal diagnostic facilities to ascertain cases. Objectives of the study were to determine how many cases may be missing from the registry as a result,...
Epidemiology of bladder and cloacal exstrophies in New York State, 1983-1999 [0.03%]
纽约州1983～1999年膀胱和泄殖腔外翻的流行病学研究
Alissa R Caton,Anna Bloom,Charlotte M Druschel et al.
Alissa R Caton et al.
Background: Bladder exstrophy (BE) and cloacal exstrophy (CE) are rare birth defects that have been reported to occur in 1:30,000-50,000 and 1:200,000-400,000 live births. Disagreement exists as to whether they comprise t...
Causes of death and case fatality rates among infants with down syndrome in metropolitan Atlanta [0.03%]
亚特兰大地区唐氏综合症婴儿死亡原因及病死率分析
Mikyong Shin,James E Kucik,Adolfo Correa
Mikyong Shin
Background: There is limited population-based information on the extent of underreporting of congenital heart defects (CHD) as a cause of death among infants with Down syndrome (DS) and on the variation in case fatality b...
Prevalence of down syndrome among children and adolescents in metropolitan Atlanta [0.03%]
亚特兰大都市地区儿童和青少年Down综合征的患病率
Lilah M Besser,Mikyong Shin,James E Kucik et al.
Lilah M Besser et al.
Background: Down syndrome (DS) prevalence estimates beyond infancy are needed to assess health service needs among those with DS. Methods: ...
Are there ethnic disparities in risk of preterm birth among infants born with congenital heart defects? [0.03%]
先天性心脏病婴儿早产风险的种族差异不容忽视？
Wendy N Nembhard,Jason L Salemi,Kimberlea W Hauser et al.
Wendy N Nembhard et al.
Background: Birth defects and preterm birth (PTB) are leading causes of infant morbidity and mortality in the United States. Infants with birth defects are more likely to be born preterm (
Improving the quality of surveillance data on congenital heart defects in the metropolitan Atlanta congenital defects program [0.03%]
提高佐治亚州阿特兰大地区先天性心脏病监测数据质量的方法研究
Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso,Matthew J Strickland,Mark D Reller et al.
Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso et al.
Background: One of the challenges in epidemiologic studies of congenital heart defects (CHDs) has been the lack of a current, standard nomenclature and classification system. Recently such a standard nomenclature became a...
Scott D Grosse,Julianne S Collins
Scott D Grosse
Background: It is well established that women who have had a pregnancy affected by a neural tube defect (NTD) have an elevated risk of a subsequent NTD-affected pregnancy and that a high dose (4 mg/day) of folic acid take...