Exploring the seasonality of birth defects in the New York State Congenital Malformations Registry

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 424-437

  Caton, Alissa R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Epidemiology; Registry; Seasonality; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

AMNION BAND SYNDROME; ANENCEPHALUS; ANOPHTHALMIA; ANUS ATRESIA; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHOANA ATRESIA; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COCHRAN ARMITAGE TREND; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS REGISTRY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DOWN SYNDROME; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; EPISPADIAS; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GASTROSCHISIS; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEWITT ROGERSON TEST; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; INTESTINE STENOSIS; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MICROPHTHALMIA; MICROTIA; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; OMPHALOCELE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; PYLORUS STENOSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPINA BIFIDA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; WALTER ELWOOD TEST; WINTER;

ADULT; AORTA; BILE DUCTS; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEW YORK; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY VALVE; REGISTRIES; SEASONS;

EID: 84862221549     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23006     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Amidei RL, Hamman RF, Kassebaum DK, et al. 1994. Birth prevalence of cleft lip and palate in Colorado by sex distribution, seasonality, race/ethnicity, and geographic variation. Spec Care Dentist 14: 233-240.
2. Anand JK, Moden I, Myles JW, et al. 1992. Incidence of neonatal hip instability: are there seasonal variations? Acta Orthop Belg 58: 205-208.
3. Armitage P. 1955. Tests for linear trends in proportions and frequencies. Biometrics 11: 375-386.
4. Beyer DA, Diedrich K, Weichert J, et al. 2011. Seasonality of spina bifida in Northern Germany. Arch Gynecol Obstet 284: 849-854.
5. Bosshardt D, Ajdacic-Gross V, Lang P, et al. 2005. Season of birth in valvular heart disease. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19: 246-252.
6. Bound JP, Harvey PW, Francis BJ, et al. 1989. Seasonal prevalence of major congenital malformations in the Fylde of Lancashire 1957-1981. J Epidemiol Community Health 43: 330-342.
7. Castilla EE, Orioli IM, Lugarinho R, et al. 1990. Monthly and seasonal variations in the frequency of congenital anomalies. Int J Epidemiol 19: 399-404.
8. Caton AR, Druschel CM, McNutt LA, et al. 2004. The epidemiology of extrahepatic biliary atresia in New York State, 1983-98. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18: 97-105.
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2008. Update on overall prevalence of major birth defects-Atlanta, Georgia, 1978-2005. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 57: 1-5.
10. Chen R, Weissman SL, Salama R, Klingberg MA. 1970. Congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH) and seasonality: the gestational age of vulnerability to some seasonal factor. Am J Epidemiol 92: 287-293.
11. Chung MK, Lao TT, Ting YH, et al. 2011. Is there seasonality in the incidence of oral-facial clefts? J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. [Epub ahead of print]
12. Cochran, WG. 1954. Some methods for strengthening the common chi-square tests. Biometrics 10: 417-451.
13. Cooper ME, Stone RA, Liu Y, et al. 2000. Descriptive epidemiology of nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in Shanghai, China, from 1980 to 1989. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 37: 274-280.
14. Coupland MA, Coupland AI. 1988. Seasonality, incidence, and sex distribution of cleft lip and palate births in Trent Region, 1973-1982. Cleft Palate J 25: 33-37.
15. Darrow LA, Strickland MJ, Klein M, et al. 2009. Seasonality of birth and implications for temporal studies of preterm birth. Epidemiology 20: 699-706.
16. de la Vega A, López-Cepero R. 2009. Seasonal variations in the incidence of some congenital anomalies in Puerto Rico based on the timing of conception. P R Health Sci J 28: 121-125.
17. Edwards MJ. 2006. Review: hyperthermia and fever during pregnancy. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 76: 507-516.
18. Elliott RF, Jovic G, Beveridge M. 2008. Seasonal variation and regional distribution of cleft lip and palate in Zambia. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 45: 533-538.
19. Eghtesady P, Brar A, Hall M, et al. 2011. Seasonality of hypoplastic left heart syndrome in the United States: a 10-year time-series analysis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 141: 432-438.
20. Fraser FC, Frecker M, Allderdice P, et al. 1986. Seasonal variation of neural tube defects in Newfoundland and elsewhere. Teratology 33: 299-303.
21. Fraser FC, Gwyn A. 1998. Seasonal variation in birth date of children with cleft lip. Teratology 57: 93-95.
22. Gadow E, Petracchi F, Poletta FA, et al. 2006. De novo chromosomal abnormalities and month of conception. Data from the southern hemisphere. Prenat Diagn 26: 1184-1186.
23. Gregg TA, Leonard AG, Hayden C, et al. 2008. Birth prevalence of cleft lip and palate in Northern Ireland (1981 to 2000). Cleft Palate Craniofac J 45: 141-147.
24. Haargaard B, Wohlfahrt J, Rosenberg T, et al. 2005. Risk factors for idiopathic congenital/infantile cataract. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46: 3067-3073.
25. Heikkilä E. 1984. Congenital dislocation of the hip in Finland. An epidemiologic analysis of 1035 cases. Acta Orthop Scand 55: 125-129.
26. Hewitt D, Milner J, Csima A, et al. 1971. On Edwards' criterion of seasonality and a non-parametric alternative. Br J Prev Soc Med 25: 174-176.
27. Honein MA, Paulozzi LJ. 1999. Birth defects surveillance: assessing the "gold standard." Am J Public Health 89: 1238-1240.
28. Jorde LB, Fineman RM, Martin RA, et al. 1984. Epidemiology of neural tube defects in Utah, 1940-1979. Am J Epidemiol 119: 487-495.
29. Krost B, Schubert J. 2006. Influence of season on prevalence of cleft lip and palate. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 35: 215-218.
30. Kyyrönen P, Hemminki K. 1988. Gastro-intestinal atresias in Finland in 1970-79, indicating time-place clustering. J Epidemiol Community Health 42: 257-265.
31. Liu L, Pan B, Lin L, et al. 2011. Seasonal variation in months of birth of patients with microtia in a Chinese population. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 75: 782-784.
32. Livesey E, Cortina Borja M, Sharif K, et al. 2009. Epidemiology of biliary atresia in England and Wales (1999-2006). Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 94: F451-F455.
33. Lynch CD, Zhang J. 2007. The research implications of the selection of a gestational age estimation method. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 21 Suppl 2: 86-96.
34. Morris JK, Alberman E, Mutton D, et al. 1998. Is there evidence of clustering in Down syndrome? Int J Epidemiol 27: 495-498.
35. National Birth Defects Prevention Network. 2010. Selected birth defects data from population-based birth defects surveillance programs in the United States, 2003-2007. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 88: 1062-1074.
36. Nelson K, Holmes LB. 1989. Malformations due to presumed spontaneous mutations in newborn infants. N Engl J Med 5; 320: 19-23.
37. New York State Department of Health. 2011. New York State Department of Health 2010-2011 Flu Monitoring-Week Ending May 21, 2011. Available at: Accessed December 6, 2011.
38. Puri BK, Singh I. 1995. Season of birth in Down's syndrome. Br J Clin Pract 49: 129-130.
39. Rogerson PA. 1996. A generalization of Hewitt's test for seasonality. Int J Epidemiology 25: 644-648.
40. Roohan PJ, Josberger RE, Acar J, et al. 2003. Validation of birth certificate data in New York State. J Community Health 28: 335-346.
41. Roux FE, Oucheng N, Lauwers-Cances V, et al. 2009. Seasonal variations in frontoethmoidal meningoencephalocele births in Cambodia. J Neurosurg Pediatr 4: 553-556.
42. Sadler TW. 2004. Langman's medical embryology. 9th ed. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
43. Sandahl B. 1977a. Seasonal incidence of cleft lips and cleft palates in Sweden, 1965-1974. Scand J Plast Reconstr Surg 11: 39-43.
44. Sandahl B. 1977b. Seasonal incidence of some congenital malformations in the central nervous system in Sweden, 1965-1972. Acta Paediatr Scand 66: 65-72.
45. Siffel C, Alverson CJ, Correa A, et al. 2005. Analysis of seasonal variation of birth defects in Atlanta. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 73: 655-662.
46. Skriver MV, Pedersen L, Stang P, et al. 2004. The month of birth does not affect the risk of hypospadias. Eur J Epidemiol 19: 1135-1136.
47. Stolwijk AM, Jongbloet PH, Zielhuis GA, et al. 1997. Seasonal variation in the prevalence of Down syndrome at birth: a review. J Epidemiol Community Health 51: 350-353.
48. Strand LB, Barnett AG, Tong S, et al. 2011. The influence of season and ambient temperature on birth outcomes: a review of the epidemiological literature. Environ Res 111: 451-462.
49. The NS, Honein MA, Caton AR, et al.;National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 2007. Risk factors for isolated biliary atresia, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2002. Am J Med Genet A 143: 2274-2284.
50. Tikkanen J, Heinonen OP. 1993. Risk factors for coarctation of the aorta. Teratology 47: 565-572.
51. Tikkanen J, Heinonen OP. 1994. Risk factors for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Teratology 50: 112-117.
52. Tonelli M, Specchia C, Decarli A, et al. 2006. De novo chromosomal abnormalities and month of conception. Prenat Diagn 26: 118-122.
53. Torfs CP, Curry CJ, Bateson TF, et al. 1992. A population-based study of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Teratology 46: 555-565.
54. Videbech P, Nielsen J. 1984. Chromosome abnormalities and season of birth. Hum Genet 65: 221-231.
55. Wada H, Muraji T, Yokoi A, et al. 2007. Insignificant seasonal and geographical variation in incidence of biliary atresia in Japan: a regional survey of over 20 years. J Pediatr Surg 42: 2090-2092.
56. Waller SA, Paul K, Peterson SE, Hitti JE. 2010. Agricultural-related chemical exposures, season of conception, and risk of gastroschisis in Washington State. Am J Obstet Gynecol 202: 241.e1-e6.
57. Walter SD, Elwood JM. 1975. A test for seasonality of events with a variable population at risk. Br J Prev Soc Med 29: 18-21.
58. Wang Y, Cross PK, Druschel CM, et al. 2010. Hospital discharge data: can it serve as the sole source of case ascertainment for population-based birth defects surveillance programs? J Public Health Manag Pract 16: 245-251.
59. Yoon PW, Bresee JS, Olney RS, et al. 1997. Epidemiology of biliary atresia: a population-based study. Pediatrics 99: 376-382.