The prevalence of birth defects among non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islanders and American Indians/Alaska Natives in Texas, 1999–2015

Birth Defects Research

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2019, Pages 1380-1388

  Le, Mimi T ^a   Shumate, Charlie J ^a   Hoyt, Adrienne T ^b   Wilkinson, Anna V ^c   Canfield, Mark A ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Alaska Natives; American Indians; Asians; birth defects; congenital defects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOANA ATRESIA; CLEFT PALATE; CLUBFOOT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HISPANIC; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREVALENCE; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRISOMY 13; ALASKA NATIVE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; NEWBORN; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RISK FACTOR; TEXAS;

ALASKA NATIVES; ASIAN AMERICANS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 85068391001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24721727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdr2.1543     Document Type: Article

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