Time trends in the prevalence of birth defects in Texas 1999-2007: Real or artifactual?

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 902-917

  Langlois, Peter H ^a   Marengo, Lisa K ^a   Canfield, Mark A ^a  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormalities; Epidemiology; Observer variation; Physicians practice patterns; Prevalence; Texas; Trends

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH DEFECT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; EAR MALFORMATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GASTROSCHISIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; LIMB MALFORMATION; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG MALFORMATION; MATERNAL AGE; POLYDACTYLY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SKIN DEFECT; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINE MALFORMATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME; TREND STUDY; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

EID: 80054003136     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.22847     Document Type: Article

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