作者
Babak Khoshnood, Maria Loane, Hermien De Walle, Larraitz Arriola, Marie-Claude Addor, Ingeborg Barisic, Judit Beres, Fabrizio Bianchi, Carlos Dias, Elizabeth Draper, Ester Garne, Miriam Gatt, Martin Haeusler, Kari Klungsoyr, Anna Latos-Bielenska, Catherine Lynch, Bob McDonnell, Vera Nelen, Amanda J Neville, Mary T O’Mahony, Annette Queisser-Luft, Judith Rankin, Anke Rissmann, Annukka Ritvanen, Catherine Rounding, Antonin Sipek, David Tucker, Christine Verellen-Dumoulin, Diana Wellesley, Helen Dolk
发表日期
2015/11/24
期刊
Bmj
卷号
351
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Study question What are the long term trends in the total (live births, fetal deaths, and terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomaly) and live birth prevalence of neural tube defects (NTD) in Europe, where many countries have issued recommendations for folic acid supplementation but a policy for mandatory folic acid fortification of food does not exist?
Methods This was a population based, observational study using data on 11 353 cases of NTD not associated with chromosomal anomalies, including 4162 cases of anencephaly and 5776 cases of spina bifida from 28 EUROCAT (European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies) registries covering approximately 12.5 million births in 19 countries between 1991 and 2011. The main outcome measures were total and live birth prevalence of NTD, as well as anencephaly and spina bifida, with time trends analysed using random effects Poisson regression models to …
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