Article: Mom's Obesity Linked With Birth Defects

Article: Birth defects surveillance registries in the United ...
International Journal of Childbirth Education;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... among childbearing women, as well as better ... This kind of birth defects research is also ... the reporting of birth defects in the United States ... widespread interest in birth defects surveillance began ... early 1960s when women's prenatal use ...

Article: Birth defects
International Journal of Childbirth Education;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... The researchers found that women with birth defects had lower survival and reproductive rates. Only 80% of women with birth defects lived to 15 years of age, while 98% of the women without birth defects lived to that age. By the ...

Article: Birth defects information lacking, survey finds.
State Health Watch;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Birth defects information lacking, survey finds ... better job of tracking and preventing birth defects, they could make significant strides ... on efforts to monitor and research birth defects. More than half the states received ...

Article: Birth Defects and Military Service Since 1990
Military Medicine;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS) is an ongoing ... case-control study of over 30 major birth defects, and is one of the largest studies of the causes of birth defects to date. Data from it were examined ...

Article: Birth Defects
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions;      700+ words ...Birth Defects A birth defect is an abnormality in ... Pregnancy Amniocentesis Infant mortality Birth defects sometimes are called congenital anomalies ... birthmarks are seldom considered birth defects because they usually do not cause ...

Article: Birth Defects Research
Tennessee TRIBUNE, The;  March 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... provide that information to women who are planning a pregnancy ... Isotretinoin) can cause severe birth defects if used during pregnancy ... Isotretinoin) is known to cause birth defects, the package carries clear warnings advising women of the danger, and reproductive ...

Article: Birth defects among low birth weight infants - ...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  February 15, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... life (1). Because many infants with birth defects are born prematurely and/or have ... retardation (2-5), the rate of birth defects is expected to vary by birth weight ... 1988 were used to study the rate of birth defects in infants in five birth-weight categories ...