Is maternal parity an independent risk factor for birth defects?

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 230-236

  Duong, Hao T ^a   Hoyt, Adrienne T ^b   Carmichael, Suzan L ^c   Gilboa, Suzanne M ^d   Canfield, Mark A ^b   Case, Amy ^b   Mcneese, Melanie L ^a   Waller, Dorothy Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormalities; Congenital heart defects; Multiparity; Nulliparity; Parity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION BAND SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPARA; NULLIPARA; OMPHALOCELE; PARITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859588902     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.22889     Document Type: Article

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