National population-based estimates for major birth defects, 2016-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We provide updated crude and adjusted prevalence estimates of major birth defects in the United States for the period 2016-2020.

Methods

Data were collected from 13 US population-based surveillance programs that used active or a combination of active and passive case ascertainment methods to collect all birth outcomes. These data were used to calculate pooled prevalence estimates and national prevalence estimates adjusted for maternal race/ethnicity for all conditions, and maternal age for trisomies and gastroschisis. Prevalence was compared to previously published national estimates from 1999 to 2014.

Results

Adjusted national prevalence estimates per 10,000 live births ranged from 0.63 for common truncus to 18.65 for clubfoot. Temporal changes were observ

SUBMITTER: Stallings EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10898112 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature