Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations
The subject of this book is to describe the occurrence of congenital malformations among children born and what risk factors exist. Population data are presented for a number of malformations, ascertained with the use of data from the Swedish national health registers for the period 1998-2010 corresponding to some 1.3 million births, together with prospectively collected information on a group of exposures of possible interest. The structure of the analysis is such that it excludes studies of, for instance, nutrition, alcohol or street drug use and many other lifestyle factors where prospective information or independent register information…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-01471-5
- EAN: 9783319014715
- Produktnummer: 15334646
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 170 S.
- Masse: H28.5 cm x B21.5 cm x D1.4 cm 708 g
- Abbildungen: 30 illus. in color
- Gewicht: 708
Über den Autor
Bengt Källén is professor emeritus of embryology at Lund University in Sweden. He has been working in birth defect epidemiology since the 1960s and was one of the founders of the Swedish Register of Congenital Malformations, one of the first registers started after the thalidomide tragedy around 1960. He worked for many years in the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Monitoring Systems and has published numerous scientific articles on congenital malformations, most notably on the effect of maternal drug use and in vitro fertilization.
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