Using registry data to suggest which birth defects may be more susceptible to artifactual clusters and trends.
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Summary
This empirical approach to identify birth defects and other health outcomes more susceptible to prevalence variability more likely to exhibit artifactual trends or clusters may be helpful for a number of public health applications.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2007-11-01
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 27
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Keywords
Percentile, Medicine, Demography, Anencephaly, Pediatrics
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- Poisson versus logistic regression in a descriptive epidemiologic analysis of data from a Birth Defects Registry.
- RESIDENTIAL RADON AND BIRTH DEFECTS: A POPULATION-BASED ASSESSMENT
- Descriptive epidemiology of birth defects thought to arise by new mutation.
- Contents of heavy metals in arable soils and birth defect risks in Shanxi, China: a small area level geographic study
- Time trends in the prevalence of birth defects in Texas 1999-2007: real or artifactual?
- A modified panel of sentinel congenital anomalies for potential use in mutation epidemiology based on birth defects registry data
- A physician survey regarding diagnostic variability among birth defects
- An exploratory analysis of the relationship between ambient ozone and particulate matter concentrations during early pregnancy and selected birth defects in Texas.
- Measurements of birth defect prevalence: which is most useful as a comparator group for pharmaceutical pregnancy registries?
- Congenital heart defect case ascertainment by the Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System.
- Urban versus rural residence and occurrence of septal heart defects in Texas.
- Birth defects among a cohort of infants born to HIV-infected women on antiretroviral medication
- Racial/Ethnic Variations in the Prevalence of Selected Major Birth Defects, Metropolitan Atlanta, 1994–2005
- Birth Defects and Unconventional Natural Gas Developments in Texas, 1999-2011.
- A spatial analysis of birth defects in Texas, 1999–2011
- Current awareness in prenatal diagnosis
- Prenatal Exposure to Toxic Metals and Neural Tube Defects: A Systematic Review of the Epidemiologic Evidence
- Contents of heavy metals in arable soils and birth defect risks in Shanxi, China: a small area level geographic study
- Materials and Methods STUDY POPULATION Data on children or pregnancies affected by birth defects came from the Texas Birth Defects Registry
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