Racial/ethnic differences in the birth prevalence of congenital anomalies in the United States

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 111-117

  Egbe, Alexander ^a   Lee, Simon ^a   Ho, Deborah ^a   Uppu, Santosh ^a   Srivastava, Shubhika ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital anomaly; Epidemiology; Newborn; Prevalence; Race

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH; CAUCASIAN; CELL SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SKELETON MALFORMATION; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; ANCESTRY GROUP; CONGENITAL DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; NEWBORN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921265729     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2013-0344     Document Type: Article

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