The impact of prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy on the relative incidence of malformations at birth among Jews and Muslim Arabs in Israel

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 539-542

  Zlotogora, Joël ^a   Haklai, Ziona ^a   Rotem, Naama ^b   Georgi, Moriah ^b   Rubin, Lisa ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b International Relations and Statistical Coordination Department   (Israel)

Author keywords

Jews; Malformations; Muslims; Prenatal diagnosis; Termination of pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ANENCEPHALUS; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARAB; ARTICLE; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILDBIRTH; CHOANA ATRESIA; CLEFT LIP FACE PALATE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE ATRESIA; ISRAEL; JEW; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; LIVE BIRTH; MOSLEM; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME; SPINA BIFIDA; STILLBIRTH; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ARABS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISLAM; ISRAEL; JEWS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 77955297431     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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