The random process of a child being born
with a birth defect shows that your premise is flawed.
Not exact matches
«Food enrichment
with a minor amount of folic acid has been
shown to be safe for the population — also without side effects for other age groups and men — and an effective way of lowering the level of
birth defects.
Most broad population studies comparing lab workers
with nonlab workers
show little overall increase in the risk of pregnancy complications or
birth defects, although one study
showed a tendency toward low
birth weights and shorter gestational lengths in cases where either parent worked in a chemical factory.
Delicate surgery performed on a fetus months before
birth can improve the health of children born
with spina bifida, a devastating neural tube
defect caused by an opening in the spine, a new study
shows.
Lead author Melissa Danielson, MSPH, a statistician
with the CDC's National Center on
Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, said findings that children in foster care experience high rates of ADHD along
with other, simultaneous behavioral disorders as compared to their peers in Medicaid
shows a substantial need for medical and behavioral services within this group.
New research
shows that women who ate a vegetable - rich diet during the year before pregnancy had a significantly lower risk of having a baby
with certain
birth defects as women who ate an unhealthy high - sugar diet.
The studies
showed that not only has mountaintop removal permanently destroyed more than 500 Appalachian mountains, but people living near the destruction are 50 % more likely to die of cancer and 42 % more likely to be born
with birth defects compared
with other people in Appalachia.
Since 2009, Michael Hendryx, a professor of public health at West Virginia University, has produced a series of peer - reviewed studies
with various colleagues that
show an association between proximity to surface mines and various health problems: cardiovascular illness, cancers, and
birth defects.
According to a local neonatologist, studies have
shown that women who conceive between April and July in the state of Indiana are most likely to deliver babies
with birth defects.