Maternal birthplace and major congenital malformations among New York Hispanics

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 467-473

  Zhu, Motao ^a,c   Druschel, Charlotte ^b   Lin, Shao ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Hispanics; Maternal nativity

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ANUS ATRESIA; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTHPLACE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COLON STENOSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CUBA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; LIMB MALFORMATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NULLIPARA; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; REGISTER; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPINA BIFIDA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; UNITED STATES;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; NEW YORK; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33748254957     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20270     Document Type: Article

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