Prevalence of congenital anterior abdominal wall defects in the United Kingdom: comparison of regional registers

BMJ 1998;317:1118-1119 ( 24 October )

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Prevalence of congenital anterior abdominal wall defects in the United Kingdom: comparison of regional registers

D H Stone, director, ^a Shahnaz Rimaz, postgraduate student, ^a W H Gilmour, senior lecturer. ^b

^a Paediatric Epidemiology and Community Health Unit, Department of Child Health, University of Glasgow Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, ^b Departments of Statistics and Public Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ

Correspondence to: Dr Stone D.H.Stone@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

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Recent reports from England and Wales¹ and Scotland² imply that a gradient of increasing risk of congenital abdominalwall defects may exist from the south to the north of the UnitedKingdom. We tested this hypothesis by comparing data from a validatedpublic health surveillance system in the west of Scotland withother registers in the United Kingdom. ³ ⁴

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The Glasgow Register of Congenital Anomalies is a computerised epidemiological database run by the Greater Glasgow HealthBoard since 1974. A member of the transnational network of EUROCAT(European Registration of Congenital Anomalies) since 1980, ituses multiple sources of ascertainment and subjects all notifiedanomalies to systematic diagnostic validation. Completed registrationforms are transmitted electronically to the EUROCAT central registryin Brussels, where they are checked for completeness and accuracyof coding.³ There is no formal time limit for notification.All births and induced abortions following prenatal diagnosisare included in the surveillance. . . . [Full text of this article]

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