A population-based study of survival and childbearing among female subjects with birth defects and the risk of recurrence in their children
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Women born with certain birth defects are more likely to have children with the same birth defect. Researchers in Norway analyzed the rate of birth defects in the children of 8,192 women born with birth defects and 451,241 women born with no birth defects. Only 80% of the women born with birth defects survived to the age of 15, compared to 98% of the other women. Only half the women born with birth defects had children compared to 67% of the other women. Women born with birth defects were about twice as likely to have a child with the same birth defect.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1999
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Trends in fetal and infant survival following preeclampsia
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A study was conducted to assess the effect on fetal and infant survival of increased rates of early delivery or preeclamptic pregnancies in Norwegian female population. Results show that fetal survival in preeclamptic pregnancies has vastly improved over than past 35 years in Norway because of more aggressive clinical management, however, the relative risk of neonatal death following a preeclamptic pregnancy has not changed over time.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2006
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Survival and Reproduction Among Males With Birth Defects and Risk of Recurrence in Their Children
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Men with a birth defect are less likely than other men to survive, less likely to have children, and more likely to have children with birth defects. This was the conclusion of a study of 486,207 men born in Norway between 1967 and 1982, 12,292 of whom had a birth defect. Many children of men with a birth defect had the same birth defect as their father.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2001
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