birth defects
Role of Nutrition in Pregnancy With Phenylketonuria and Birth Defects
... ABSTRACT. Objective. The maternal phenylketonu- ria (PKU) syndrome is caused by high blood phenylala- nine (Phe) levels during pregnancy, leading to a host of birth defects, especially microcephaly and ...
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Birth defects in Iraq and the plausibility of environmental exposure: A review
... Sulfur mustard is an alkylating compound with a po- tent vesicant property has been used as a chemical weapon in various conflicts during the 20 th century. It causes blistering to the skin and mucous membrane with no ...
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Increased prevalence of some birth defects in Korea, 2009–2010
... of birth defects has shown variation to the tem- poral changes in the prevalence of birth ...several birth defects has increased over time, including, for example, heart defects, ...
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Audit of Birth Defects in 34,109 Deliveries in a Tertiary Referral Center
... Audit of Birth Defects in 34,109 Deliveries in a Tertiary Referral Center ORIGINAL ARTICLE Audit of Birth Defects in 34,109 Deliveries in a Tertiary Referral Center M N Noraihan, MRCOG*, M H See, BSc[.] ...
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Risks of Birth Defects and Other Adverse Outcomes Associated With Assisted Reproductive Technology
... low birth weight, analysis of possible risk from these techniques is confounded by factors of underlying parental sub- fertility, fertility treatments, and ...with birth defects and ovula- tion ...
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A hospital based birth defects surveillance system in Kampala, Uganda
... estimate birth defects prevalence [25, 28–30] and have faced a range of challenges, including in- complete documentation, lack of details, and inaccurate coding [31], this surveillance project uses multiple ...
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Knowledge of pregnant women about birth defects
... child birth and pregnancy in most African ...National Birth Defects Prevention Network advocated a serries of strategies for pregnant women in a bid to increase their awareness about BD ...
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Maternal age and birth defects after the use of assisted reproductive technology in Japan, 2004–2010
... From 2004 to 2010 (the latest), the individual list of all ART pregnancies resulting in birth defects was presented in the annual reports. The presented items are shown in Table 1. The mean response rate ...
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Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Risk of Birth Defects
... on birth defects, which overcomes reporting biases and loss to ...because birth defects are ascertained independently by the WABDR and infor- mation regarding birth defect diag- noses ...
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Clinical-Epidemiologic Assessment of Patterns of Birth Defects Associated With Human Teratogens: Application to Diabetic Embryopathy
... To evaluate the patterns of birth defects associated with diabetic embryopathy, a sensitivity-specificity analysis was per- formed on 4929 infants with major defects ascertained by the p[r] ...
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Application of Ultrasound in Prenatal Diagnosis of Birth Defects
... 5 birth defects include cardiovascular deformity, central nervous system deformity, lip/palate cleft, lip and palate cleft, urinary system deformity, digestive system deformity in China [4-5] ...the ...
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Birth Defects in Northern Iran (2008-2013)
... of birth defects and mothers were interviewed for variables such as maternal age and ...of birth defects was translated to the International Classification of Diseases 10th revision–clinical ...
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Birth Defects and Parental Consanguinity in the North of Iran
... In the Arab communities, interfamilial unions currently account for 20-50% of all marriages. First-cousin unions are especially popular and constitute almost one quarter of all marriages in many Arab countries. ...
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Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Risk of Birth Defects
... on birth defects, which overcomes reporting biases and loss to ...because birth defects are ascertained independently by the WABDR and infor- mation regarding birth defect diag- noses ...
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Birth defects in newborns and stillborns: an example of the Brazilian reality
... Result: The incidence of birth defects was 2.8%. Among them, the etiology was identified in 73.6% (ci95%: 64.4- 81.6%). Etiology involving the participation of genetic factors single or associated with ...
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COMPARATIVE INCIDENCE OF BIRTH DEFECTS IN NEGRO AND WHITE CHILDREN
... COMPARATIVE INCIDENCE OF BIRTH DEFECTS IN NEGRO AND WHITE. Services[r] ...
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CELL PHONE INDUCED SPERMATIC & BIRTH DEFECTS ON ALBINO RAT
... cells. Epididymal transit is the movement of sperm cell from head through body to tail of the epididymis. Sperm cells are stored in the caudal epididymis at the end of the Spermatogenesis, which can be influenced by Age, ...
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Water disinfection by-products and the risk of specific birth defects: a population-based cross-sectional study in Taiwan
... specific birth defects, which could be relevant adverse effects based on previous ...septal defects. The specific birth defects are expected to be also more homogenous as to their ...
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Maternal Obesity and Risk for Birth Defects
... and birth defects, and diabetes and obesity, we excluded from the analyses infants whose mothers reported pre- existing ...Because defects showing a relation with obesity could share a common ...
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Role of Copy Number Variants in Structural Birth Defects
... in birth defects, it is clear from the literature reviewed here that CNVs occur, often at an increased prevalence, in individuals with isolated birth de- fects and that they alter genes that lead to ...
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