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Birth Defects Learning Center
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Hi JC, Thanks for helping to increase awareness of the devastating affects of prematurity. Have you ever looked at kick counting as a safe& effective way for moms-to-be to help decrease the risk of preterm birth?
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January is Birth Defects Prevention Month and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), in conjunction with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(AHRQ) has published a statistical brief of the economic impact of birth defects. ...
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Orofacial clefting in both animal models and humans has also been correlated with folate deficiency states. In 2003, da Costa and colleagues(Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2003;67:837-47) demonstrated that serum containing folate receptor a...
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Today I received another comment to a post I wrote awhile back on aneuploidy(chromosomal abnormality) from a reader who has a first trimester baby that was found to have a cystic hygroma. With the growing acceptance of first trimester screening fo...
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In my November 29, 2006 post, I promised that my next post would focus on a discussion of first trimester screening for aneuploidy. It has taken awhile to get back to this, having had a few distractions along the way, but blogging does offer some ...
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The other day, tjtiger left a new comment on my post"MTHFR Mutations and Congenital Heart Defects". Her many questions made her comment worthy of a post of their own and the query related to the possible assocation of MTHFR polymorhisms and schizo...
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Gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM) and type 2 diabetes comprise more than 95% of the diabetes complicating pregnancy. Both are characterized by a relative(not absolute) deficiency in insulin as the result of inadequate production/secretion, periph...
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