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Survival of infants diagnosed with encephalocele in Atlanta, 1979-98Csaba Siffel
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC and Prevention, Division of Health Studies, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, GA, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 17:40-8. 2003..This information is useful for clinicians and families who must plan for the long-term care of affected children...
Diabetes mellitus and birth defectsAdolfo Correa
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 199:237.e1-9. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine associations between diabetes mellitus and 39 birth defects...- Inter-rater agreement of assessed prenatal maternal occupational exposures to leadAdolfo Correa
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 76:811-24. 2006..However, evaluations of inter-rater agreement of such assessments have been limited... - The Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program: 35 years of birth defects surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAdolfo Correa-Villaseñor
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 67:617-24. 2003..This paper presents an overview of MACDP current methods and accomplishments over the past 35 years... - Random error and undercounting in birth defects surveillance data: implications for inferenceAdolfo Correa-Villaseñor
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 67:610-6. 2003..This report presents an overview of random error and ascertainment bias in birth defects surveillance data, and of the implications of these errors for estimation and comparisons of birth defects rates... - Do multivitamin supplements attenuate the risk for diabetes-associated birth defects?Adolfo Correa
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Pediatrics 111:1146-51. 2003..To evaluate whether the risk for birth defects associated with maternal diabetes is attenuated by use of multivitamin supplements during the periconceptional period... - Maternal occupational exposure to organic solvents during early pregnancy and risks of neural tube defects and orofacial cleftsTania A Desrosiers
Department of Epidemiology, Campus Box 7435, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Occup Environ Med 69:493-9. 2012.... - Improved survival among children with spina bifida in the United StatesMikyong Shin
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and, Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Pediatr 161:1132-7. 2012..To evaluate trends in survival among children with spina bifida by race/ethnicity and possible prognostic factors in 10 regions of the United States... - Lack of periconceptional vitamins or supplements that contain folic acid and diabetes mellitus-associated birth defectsAdolfo Correa
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 206:218.e1-13. 2012..The purpose of this study was to examine the risk of birth defects in relation to diabetes mellitus and the lack of use of periconceptional vitamins or supplements that contain folic acid... 
Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular malformations in Atlanta, Georgia, 1986-2003Matthew J Strickland
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:1004-14. 2009..60, 95% confidence interval: 1.11, 2.31). Of the 60 associations examined in the primary analysis, no other significant associations were observed...- Maternal periconceptional alcohol consumption and risk of orofacial cleftsPaul A Romitti
Department of Epidemiology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:775-85. 2007..Such findings need exploration in additional, large studies... - Association between maternal occupational exposure to organic solvents and congenital heart defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2002Suzanne M Gilboa
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Occup Environ Med 69:628-35. 2012.... - Prevalence of down syndrome among children and adolescents in metropolitan AtlantaLilah M Besser
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:765-74. 2007..Down syndrome (DS) prevalence estimates beyond infancy are needed to assess health service needs among those with DS... - Association between prepregnancy body mass index and congenital heart defectsSuzanne M Gilboa
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 202:51.e1-51.e10. 2010..The purpose of this study was to examine associations between prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and congenital heart defects (CHDs)... - Racial/ethnic variations in the prevalence of selected major birth defects, metropolitan Atlanta, 1994-2005James E Kucik
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Public Health Rep 127:52-61. 2012..Documenting the variation in prevalence of birth defects among racial/ethnic subpopulations is critical for assessing possible variations in diagnosis, case ascertainment, or risk factors among such groups... - Prevalence of spina bifida among children and adolescents in metropolitan AtlantaMikyong Shin
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82:748-54. 2008..We estimated the prevalence of SB among children and adolescents in metropolitan Atlanta... - Seasonality of birth and implications for temporal studies of preterm birthLyndsey A Darrow
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Epidemiology 20:699-706. 2009..To illustrate, we describe the seasonal patterns of birth in Atlanta and demonstrate how these patterns could lead to confounding in time-series studies of seasonally-varying exposures and preterm birth... - Improving the quality of surveillance data on congenital heart defects in the metropolitan Atlanta congenital defects programTiffany Riehle-Colarusso
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:743-53. 2007..This study reports the classification of cases of CHDs in a birth defects surveillance database using modified STS nomenclature... - Residential mobility during pregnancy: patterns and correlatesAssia Miller
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop E 86, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Matern Child Health J 14:625-34. 2010..Accounting for potential case-control differences in correlates of residential mobility could be useful in minimizing potential non-differential misclassification... - Causes of death and case fatality rates among infants with down syndrome in metropolitan AtlantaMikyong Shin
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:775-80. 2007.... - Sensitivity of birth certificate reports of birth defects in Atlanta, 1995-2005: effects of maternal, infant, and hospital characteristicsSheree L Boulet
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Public Health Rep 126:186-94. 2011..We assessed variations in the sensitivity of birth defect diagnoses derived from birth certificate data by maternal, infant, and hospital characteristics... - Maternal age and prevalence of isolated congenital heart defects in an urban area of the United StatesAssia Miller
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Med Genet A 155:2137-45. 2011..Further studies are warranted to corroborate these observations, taking into account potential confounding by known modifiable risk factors... - Survival in infants with Down syndrome, Metropolitan Atlanta, 1979-1998Sonja A Rasmussen
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Pediatr 148:806-812. 2006..Factors influencing survival among persons with Down syndrome (DS) are not well understood. We sought to evaluate survival of infants with DS and potential prognostic factors... - Application of the automated spatial surveillance program to birth defects surveillance dataBennett R Gardner
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:559-64. 2007.... - Birth Defects Cluster Study: a national approach to birth defects cluster investigationsJames E Kucik
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82:805-11. 2008..We describe a novel approach for investigating and analyzing pooled information from a series of birth defects cluster investigations... - The importance of nomenclature for congenital cardiac disease: implications for research and evaluationMatthew J Strickland
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Cardiol Young 18:92-100. 2008..Administrative databases are often used for congenital cardiac disease research and evaluation, with little validation of the accuracy of the diagnostic codes... - Prevalence of spina bifida among children and adolescents in 10 regions in the United StatesMikyong Shin
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 126:274-9. 2010..The goal was to estimate the number of children and adolescents, 0 to 19 years of age, living with spina bifida (SB) in the United States... - Intent to become pregnant as a predictor of exposures during pregnancy: is there a relation?Lara C Than
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Reprod Med 50:389-96. 2005..To evaluate the relationship between intent to be pregnant and selected maternal exposures during pregnancy... - Prevalence of Down syndrome among children and adolescents in 10 regions of the United StatesMikyong Shin
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Pediatrics 124:1565-71. 2009..We aimed to estimate the prevalence of Down syndrome (DS) among children and adolescents aged 0 to 19 years in 10 regions of the United States... - Trends in survival among children with Down syndrome in 10 regions of the United StatesJames E Kucik
Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology, and iPsychology, Queen s University, Kingston, Canada
Pediatrics 131:e27-36. 2013..Kaplan-Meier survival probabilities were estimated by select demographic and clinical characteristics. Adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) were estimated for maternal and infant characteristics by using Cox proportional hazard models... - The contribution of chromosomal abnormalities to congenital heart defects: a population-based studyRobert J Hartman
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E 86, Atlanta, GA, USA
Pediatr Cardiol 32:1147-57. 2011..Use of new technologies that have become recently available (e.g., chromosomal microarray) may increase the identified contribution of chromosomal abnormalities even further... - Bladder exstrophy: an epidemiologic study from the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research, and an overview of the literatureCsaba Siffel
Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 157:321-32. 2011..The higher total prevalence among male cases and older mothers, especially among isolated cases, warrants further attention... - Quantifying geocode location error using GIS methodsMatthew J Strickland
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Environ Health 6:10. 2007..Geographic information system (GIS) methods were used to quantify uncertainty in the two sets of geocodes using orthoimagery and tax parcel datasets... - Are encephaloceles neural tube defects?Courtney A Rowland
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Mailstop E 86, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Pediatrics 118:916-23. 2006..Encephalocele is classified as a neural tube defect, but questions have been raised regarding whether its epidemiological characteristics are similar to those of other neural tube defects... - Maternal smoking and congenital heart defects in the Baltimore-Washington Infant StudyClinton J Alverson
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Mail Stop E 86, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Pediatrics 127:e647-53. 2011..We investigated associations between maternal cigarette smoking during the first trimester and the risk of congenital heart defects (CHDs) among the infants... - Long-term survival of infants with atrioventricular septal defectsAssia Miller
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Pediatr 156:994-1000. 2010..To examine the variation in survival in infants with atrioventricular septal defects (AVSD) with demographic factors and clinical characteristics, including the presence of Down syndrome... - Use of spline regression in an analysis of maternal prepregnancy body mass index and adverse birth outcomes: does it tell us more than we already know?Suzanne M Gilboa
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Ann Epidemiol 18:196-205. 2008..It is unclear whether further insight into these associations can be gained from spline regression... - Maternal smoking and environmental tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of orofacial cleftsMargaret A Honein
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Epidemiology 18:226-33. 2007..Smoking during pregnancy has been associated with orofacial clefts in numerous studies. However, most previous studies have not been able to assess the relation between maternal smoking and specific phenotypes (eg, bilateral clefts)... - Associations between maternal fever and influenza and congenital heart defectsMatthew E Oster
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Pediatr 158:990-5. 2011..To examine associations between maternal reports of prenatal fever or influenza and congenital heart defects (CHDs), and to evaluate whether those associations varied with antipyretic use... - Prenatal diagnosis, pregnancy terminations and prevalence of Down syndrome in AtlantaCsaba Siffel
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 70:565-71. 2004..This study examines the prevalence of Down syndrome before (1990-1993) and after inclusion of prenatally diagnosed cases (1994-1999) in a population-based registry of birth defects in metropolitan Atlanta... - Updated National Birth Prevalence estimates for selected birth defects in the United States, 2004-2006Samantha E Parker
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 88:1008-16. 2010..In 2006, data for 21 birth defects from 1999 through 2001 were presented as national birth prevalence estimates. The purpose of this report was to update these estimates using data from 2004 through 2006... - Evaluation of an active surveillance system for stillbirths in metropolitan AtlantaAlejandro Azofeifa
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Registry Manag 39:13-8, quiz 36. 2012..This pilot project was evaluated using CDC's current guidelines for evaluating surveillance systems... - Inter-rater reliability of assessed prenatal maternal occupational exposures to solvents, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metalsCarissa M Rocheleau
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 8:718-28. 2011..92) in the second job set. Inter-rater reliability varied by exposure agent and prevalence, demonstrating the importance of measuring reliability in studies using a multiple expert rater method of exposure assessment... - Survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practice management patterns of Atlanta-area obstetricians regarding stillbirthWes Duke
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Womens Health Issues 20:366-70. 2010..The objective of this survey was to better understand the factors potentially affecting the quality of data collected on stillbirths among a defined population... - Congenital heart defects and major structural noncardiac anomalies, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 to 2005Assia Miller
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth, Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Pediatr 159:70-78.e2. 2011..To identify the proportion of major structural noncardiac anomalies identified with congenital heart defects (CHDs)... - Epidemiology of gastroschisis in metropolitan Atlanta, 1968 through 2000Laura J Williams
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 73:177-83. 2005..In light of recent reports of an increasing prevalence of gastroschisis in the United States, continued monitoring of this birth defect is warranted... - Trends in twinning rates in metropolitan Atlanta before and after folic acid fortificationJames Kucik
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Reprod Med 49:707-12. 2004..To examine whether trends in rates of twinning in metropolitan Atlanta increased after folic acid fortification... - Mortality resulting from congenital heart disease among children and adults in the United States, 1999 to 2006Suzanne M Gilboa
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop E 86, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Circulation 122:2254-63. 2010..There is little population-based information on CHD mortality trends and patterns among older children and adults... - Ambient air pollution and preterm birth: a time-series analysisLyndsey A Darrow
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Epidemiology 20:689-98. 2009..An emerging body of evidence suggests that ambient levels of air pollution during pregnancy are associated with preterm birth... - Fine-grained record integration and linkage toolPawel Jurczyk
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82:822-9. 2008.... - Analysis of seasonal variation of birth defects in AtlantaCsaba Siffel
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 73:655-62. 2005..This study examines possible seasonal variation in the prevalence of selected birth defects in a defined study population using graphical displays and three statistical methods... - A population-based study of the 22q11.2 deletion: phenotype, incidence, and contribution to major birth defects in the populationLorenzo D Botto
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Pediatrics 112:101-7. 2003..Our goals were to assess the population-based birth prevalence of the 22q11.2 deletion and its associated phenotype and its impact on the occurrence of heart defects... - Role of geographic information systems in birth defects surveillance and researchCsaba Siffel
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 76:825-33. 2006..With the significant advancement of geographic information systems (GIS), mapping and evaluating the spatial distribution of health events has become easier. We examine the role of GIS in birth defects surveillance and research... - Challenges and priorities for surveillance of stillbirths: a report on two workshopsC Wes Duke
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E 86, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Public Health Rep 124:652-9. 2009.... - Descriptive study of nonsyndromic atrioventricular septal defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2005Robert J Hartman
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Med Genet A 155:555-64. 2011..46-0.86)]. Understanding the prevalence of nonsyndromic AVSDs, demographic factors associated with their occurrence, and associated defects could help guide clinical care, as well as contribute to a better understanding of pathogenesis... - Using active birth defects surveillance programs to supplement data on fetal death reports: improving surveillance data on stillbirthsWes Duke
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82:799-804. 2008..The data collection form for the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program, an active, population-based birth defects surveillance system, was modified to collect additional information on stillbirths from medical records... - Use of antihistamine medications during early pregnancy and isolated major malformationsSuzanne M Gilboa
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85:137-50. 2009..There is little evidence that they have teratogenic effects, but there are knowledge gaps with respect to newer products, as well as the relationship between specific antihistamines and specific birth defects... - Racial differences in infant mortality attributable to birth defects in the United States, 1989-2002Quanhe Yang
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 76:706-13. 2006..The objective is to study racial differences in infant mortality attributable to birth defects (IMBD) in the United States... - Lexicon, definitions, and conceptual framework for public health surveillanceH Irene Hall
National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30329 1902, USA
MMWR Surveill Summ 61:10-4. 2012..quot;.. - Patterns in the prevalence of congenital heart defects, metropolitan Atlanta, 1978 to 2005Kari Bjornard
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 97:87-94. 2013..We evaluated temporal and racial/ethnic trends in the birth prevalence of CHDs in metropolitan Atlanta from 1978 to 2005... - Maternal lifestyle factors and risk for ventricular septal defectsLaura J Williams
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 70:59-64. 2004..However, little is known about the etiology of VSD. This study sought to evaluate the association between maternal lifestyle exposures and the risk for VSD in offspring... - Case report: three farmworkers who gave birth to infants with birth defects closely grouped in time and place-Florida and North Carolina, 2004-2005Geoffrey M Calvert
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:787-91. 2007..There is little evidence linking adverse reproductive effects to exposure to specific pesticides during pregnancy... - Prenatal secondhand smoke exposure and infant birth weight in ChinaNora L Lee
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 9:3398-420. 2012..Future studies on SHS exposure and infant birth weight in China should emphasize more objective measures of exposure to quantify and account for any exposure misclassification... - An update on cardiovascular malformations in congenital rubella syndromeMatthew E Oster
Children s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 88:1-8. 2010..While initial reports identified patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) as the primary CVM in CRS, the exact nature of the CVMs found in CRS has not been well established... - The National Children's Study of environmental effects on child health and developmentAmy M Branum
Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Studies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:642-6. 2003..We discuss briefly how the proposed cohort could be used to examine, among many other things, the effect of chemical contaminants in breast milk on children's health and development... - Folic acid supplements during early pregnancy and likelihood of multiple births: a population-based cohort studyZhu Li
The National Centre for Maternal and Infant Health, and the Department of Health Care Epidemiology, Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing, China
Lancet 361:380-4. 2003..59% and 0.65%, respectively (rate ratio 0.91; 95% CI 0.82-1.00). INTERPRETATION: Our findings suggest that consumption of folic acid supplements during pregnancy is not associated with an increased occurrence of multiple births... - Prepregnancy obesity as a risk factor for structural birth defectsD Kim Waller
School of Public Health, The University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:745-50. 2007..To describe the relation between maternal obesity, overweight and underweight status, and 16 categories of structural birth defects... - Trihalomethane exposures from municipal water supplies and selected congenital malformationsGary M Shaw
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, California Birth Defects Monitoring Program, Oakland, CA 94606, USA
Epidemiology 14:191-9. 2003.... - Noninherited risk factors and congenital cardiovascular defects: current knowledge: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young: endorsed by the American Academy of PediatricsKathy J Jenkins
Boston Children s Hospital, USA
Circulation 115:2995-3014. 2007..Issues related to pregnancy monitoring are discussed. Knowledge gaps and future sources of new information on risk factors are described... - Evaluation of three retrospective exposure assessment methodsPatricia A Stewart
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 6120 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7240, Rockville, MD 20892 7240, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 47:399-411. 2003..To evaluate three methods for assessing retrospective exposures of acrylonitrile workers... - Association between congenital heart defects and small for gestational ageSadia Malik
Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, Little Rock, AR, USA
Pediatrics 119:e976-82. 2007.... - Maternal use of acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and muscular ventricular septal defectsMario A Cleves
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital, Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, 11219 Financial Centre Parkway, Little Rock, AR 72211, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 70:107-13. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Significant associations were not detected between the occurrence of mVSDs and maternal use of NSAIDs or acetaminophen adjusting for maternal fever, nor were they detected between maternal fever and mVSDs... - Reporting birth defects surveillance data 1968-2003Adolfo Correa
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:65-186. 2007 - Frequency of holoprosencephaly in the International Clearinghouse Birth Defects Surveillance Systems: searching for population variationsEmanuele Leoncini
Centre of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research, Roma, Italy
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82:585-91. 2008.... - Maternal caffeine consumption and risk of cardiovascular malformationsMarilyn L Browne
Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health, Troy, New York, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:533-43. 2007..Epidemiologic studies have yielded mixed results, but such studies have grouped etiologically different defects and have not evaluated effect modification... - A review of the literature on the effects of ambient air pollution on fetal growthMildred Maisonet
Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA
Environ Res 95:106-15. 2004..Current scientific knowledge on the impact of air pollution on fetal growth is still limited; thus, several issues should be examined further... - Seeking causes: Classifying and evaluating congenital heart defects in etiologic studiesLorenzo D Botto
Division of Medical Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:714-27. 2007..We describe an approach to classification for risk assessment of CHD based on developmental and epidemiologic considerations, and apply it to data from the National Birth Defect Prevention Study (NBDPS)...