Year : 1998 | Volume
: 4 | Issue : 1 | Page : 84--87
Study Of Malformations And Down Syndrome In India (SOMDI) : Delhi Region
I C Verma, N K Anand, Madhulika Kabra, P S N Menon, Neena Sharma
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I C Verma
A total of 23,367 children born at Safdarjung hospital, New Delhi were examined for the incidence of congenital malformations as a part of multicentric project (SOMDI) funded by DAE. The study revealed 3.1% of still births, 1.46% of malformations. The frequency of malformations was more in babies born to rural mothers cum parents who were blood relatives. Amongst the malformations recorded central nervous system (Neural tube defect) malformations were more frequent (7.87/1000 births) followed by muscutoskeletal cum gastrointestinal type (3.08/1000 births) and multiple malformations (1.67/1000 births)
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Verma I, Anand N, Kabra M, Menon P, Sharma N. Study Of Malformations And Down Syndrome In India (SOMDI) : Delhi Region.Indian J Hum Genet 1998;4:84-87
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