Association of pre-pregnancy weight, birth defects
After randomized, controlled trials established that consumption of folic acid before pregnancy and during the early weeks of gestation reduces the r…
Congenital anomalies--why bother?
This paper discusses changes in diagnostic criteria, decreasing age at diagnosis, improved case ascertainment, diagnostic substitution, and social in…
There is a lack of evidence regarding the effect of dose, pattern and timing of prenatal alcohol exposure and behaviour problems in children aged 2 y…
Physical and mental health in mothers of children with Down syndrome.
This study describes the impact of having a sibling with Down syndrome or Rett syndrome using a questionnaire completed by parents.
To investigate perinatal risk factors for childhood Type 1 diabetes in Western Australia, using a complete population-based cohort.
Information on presence and age at onset of seizures, perinatal and developmental history, and genetic status was abstracted on 275 cases in the Aust…
This study compared the behavior profile of cases in the Australian Rett Syndrome Database (ARSD) with those in a British study using the Rett Syndro…