Mortality and Maldevelopment Part II: The Saga of Neural Tube Defects /

• Main Author: Kalter, Harold (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Obstetrics.; Maternal and child health services.; Reproductive medicine.; Epidemiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.; Maternal and Child Health.; Reproductive Medicine.; Biomedicine general.

Congenital malformations are worldwide occurrences striking in every condition of society. These severe physical abnormalities which are present at birth and affecting every part of the body happen more often than usually realized, once in every 33 births. The most common, after heart defects, are t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Basic Stuff
• Neural Tube Defects
• Setting the Stage
• Studies in the Old World
• The Continent of Europe
• The United States
• Geography and Chronology
• Canada
• Australia and New Zealand
• Blacks and Jews
• The Mideast
• Asia
• The Sex Ratio Phenomenon
• Abortion
• Fetal Diagnosis of Neural Tube Defect
• Etiology I: Early Questions
• Etiology II
• Neural Tube Defects in China
• The Ultimate Question
• The Future.