Special Issue: 2012 Congenital Malformations Surveillance Report
A Report from the National Birth Defects Prevention Network
December 2012
Volume 93 , Issue 12
Pages 963-1053
Issue edited by: Russell S. Kirby, Marilyn L. Browne
Editorial: Birth defects surveillance: An essential public health function for primary prevention and health promotion (pages 963-964)
Russell S. Kirby and Marilyn L. Browne
Editorial: Newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease: Essential public health roles for birth defects monitoring programs (pages 965-969)
Richard S. Olney and Lorenzo D. Botto
Brief Report: Selected birth defects data from population-based birth defects surveillance programs in the United States, 2005–2009: Featuring critical congenital heart defects targeted for pulse oximetry screening (pages 970–983)
Cara T. Mai, Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso, Alissa O'Halloran, Janet D. Cragan, Richard S. Olney, Angela Lin, Marcia Feldkamp, Lorenzo D. Botto, Russel Rickard, Marlene Anderka, Mary Ethen, Carol Stanton, Joan Ehrhardt and Mark Canfield, for the National Birth Defects Prevention Network
PDF copy of Brief Report 
and PDF copy of the Birth Defects Data and Directory
Public perception of birth defects terminology (pages 984-989)
Cara T. Mai, Emily E. Petersen and Assia Miller
Evaluation of ICD-9-CM codes for craniofacial microsomia (pages 990-995)
Daniela V. Luquetti, Babette S. Saltzman, Daniela Vivaldi, Luiz A. Pimenta, Anne V. Hing, Cynthia H. Cassell, Jacqueline R. Starr and Carrie L. Heike
Self-reported maternal smoking during pregnancy by source in Utah, 2003–2007 (pages 996-1003)
Sivithee Srisukhumbowornchai, Sergey Krikov and Marcia L. Feldkamp
The association between neonatal thyroxine and craniosynostosis, Texas, 2004–2007 (pages 1004-1009)
Syed Shahrukh Hashmi, Mark A. Canfield, Lisa Marengo, Karen B. Moffitt, John W. Belmont, Debra Freedenberg, Susan M. Tanksley and Philip J. Lupo
Association between maternal age and birth defects of unknown etiology ― United States, 1997–2007 (pages 1010-1018)
Simerpal K. Gill, Cheryl Broussard, Owen Devine, Ridgely Fisk Green, Sonja A. Rasmussen and Jennita Reefhuis, and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
Association between weight gain during pregnancy and neural tube defects and gastroschisis in offspring (pages 1019-1025)
Wei Yang, Suzan L. Carmichael, Sarah C. Tinker and Gary M. Shaw, the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
Association of microtia with maternal nutrition (pages 1026-1032)
Chen Ma, Gary M. Shaw, Angela E. Scheuerle, Mark A. Canfield and Suzan L. Carmichael, National Birth Defects Prevention Study
Maternal caffeine consumption and risk of congenital limb deficiencies (pages 1033-1043)
Lei Chen, Erin M. Bell, Marilyn L. Browne, Charlotte M. Druschel, Paul A. Romitti, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Trudy L. Burns, Roxana Moslehi and Richard S. Olney, and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
Hospital use, associated costs, and payer status for infants born with spina bifida (pages 1044–1053)
Elizabeth Radcliff, Cynthia H. Cassell, Jean Paul Tanner, Russell S. Kirby, Sharon Watkins, Jane Correia, Cora Peterson and Scott D. Grosse
