Annual Reports


The National Birth Defects Prevention Network publishes its annual report in a special issue of Birth Defects Research Part A.  The annual report includes directory information for birth defects programs, state-specific data on 45 selected birth defects, and journal articles on birth defects surveillance and epidemiology.
Annual report articles are listed in the Articles of Potential Interest database and can be searched by author name, keywords, title, year, etc. here.

A complete listing of previously published annual reports is available in the Members-Only Section.

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 2016 Annual Report
Special Issue: 2016 Congenital Malformations Surveillance Report:
A Report from the National Birth Defects Prevention Network


November 2016
Volume 106, Issue 11

Pages 863-988
Issue edited by: Dr. Russell Kirby, Dr. Marilyn L. Browne

Editorial: Editorial advances in population-based birth defects surveillance, epidemiology, and public health practice (pages 867–868)
Russell S. Kirby and Marilyn L. Browne

Editorial: Editorial brain malformation surveillance in the Zika era (pages 869–874)
Edwin Trevathan

Using state and provincial surveillance programs to reduce risk of recurrence of neural tube defects in the United States and Canada: A missed opportunity? (pages 875–880)
Timothy J. Flood, Chelsea M. Rienks, Alina L. Flores, Cara T. Mai, Barbara K. Frohnert, Rachel E. Rutkowski, Jane A. Evans and Russell S. Kirby

Geographic distribution of live births with tetralogy of Fallot in North Carolina 2003 to 2012 (pages 881–887)
Jennifer S. Nelson, Rebecca C. Stebbins, Paula D. Strassle and Robert E. Meyer

Surveillance of ventricular septal defects in Delaware (pages 888–893)
Amy Acheson, Anika Vaidy, Kathleen Stomieroski, Dana R. Thompson, Kristin M. Maiden, Deborah B. Ehrenthal, Samir Yezdani, Abdul Majeed Bhat, Robert Locke and Louis E. BartosheskyScheuerle

Evaluation of the Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies: Thirty-five years of surveillance (pages 894–904)
Wendy N. Nembhard and Carol Bower

ICD-10–based expanded code set for use in cleft lip/palate research and surveillance (pages 905–914)
Alexander C. Allori, Janet D. Cragan, Cynthia H. Cassell and Jeffrey R. Marcus

Characterizing facial features in individuals with craniofacial microsomia: A systematic approach for clinical research (pages 915–926)
Carrie L. Heike, Erin Wallace, Matthew L. Speltz, Babette Siebold, Martha M. Werler, Anne V. Hing, Craig B. Birgfeld, Brent R. Collett, Brian G. Leroux and Daniela V. Luquetti

Using insurance claims data to identify and estimate critical periods in pregnancy: An application to antidepressants (pages 927–934)
Elizabeth C. Ailes, Regina M. Simeone, April L. Dawson, Emily E. Petersen and Suzanne M. Gilboa

Brief Report: Birth defects and neonatal morbidity caused by teratogen exposure after the embryonic period (pages 935–939)
Angela E. Scheuerle and Arthur S. Aylsworth

Association between antibiotic use among pregnant women with urinary tract infections in the first trimester and birth defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study 1997 to 2011 (pages 940–949)
Elizabeth C. Ailes, Suzanne M. Gilboa, Simerpal K. Gill, Cheryl S. Broussard, Krista S. Crider, Robert J. Berry, Tonia C. Carter, Charlotte A. Hobbs, Julia D. Interrante, Jennita Reefhuis and and The National Birth Defects Prevention Study

Maternal autoimmune disease and birth defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (pages 950–962)
Meredith M. Howley, Marilyn L. Browne, Alissa R. Van Zutphen, Sandra D. Richardson, Sarah J. Blossom, Cheryl S. Broussard, Suzan L. Carmichael, Charlotte M. Druschel and for the National Birth Defects Prevention Study

Paternal and joint parental occupational pesticide exposure and spina bifida in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997 to 2002 (pages 963–971)
Stacy M. Pettigrew, Erin M. Bell, Alissa R. Van Zutphen, Carissa M. Rocheleau, Gary M. Shaw, Paul A. Romitti, Andrew Olshan, Philip J. Lupo, Aida Soim, Jennifer A. Makelarski, Adrian M. Michalski, Wayne Sanderson and and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study

Population-based microcephaly surveillance in the United States, 2009 to 2013: An analysis of potential sources of variation (pages 972–982)
Janet D. Cragan, Jennifer L. Isenburg, Samantha E. Parker, C.J. Alverson, Robert E. Meyer, Erin B. Stallings, Russell S. Kirby, Philip J. Lupo, Jennifer S. Liu, Amanda Seagroves, Mary K. Ethen, Sook Ja Cho, MaryAnn Evans, Rebecca F. Liberman, Jane Fornoff, Marilyn L. Browne, Rachel E. Rutkowski, Amy E. Nance, Marlene Anderka, Deborah J. Fox, Amy Steele, Glenn Copeland, Paul A. Romitti, Cara T. Mai and for the National Birth Defects Prevention Network

A quality assessment of reporting sources for microcephaly in Utah, 2003 to 2013 (pages 983–988)
Amy Steele, Jane Johnson, Amy Nance, Robert Satterfield, C.J. Alverson and Cara Mai

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 2015 Annual Report

 
Special Issue: 2015 Congenital Malformations Surveillance Report:
A Report from the National Birth Defects Prevention Network


November 2015
Volume 103, Issue 11

Pages I-V,893-993
Issue edited by: Dr. Russell Kirby, Dr. Marilyn L. Browne

Editorial: Population-based birth defects surveillance data: The cornerstone of epidemiologic and health services research and disease prevention (pages 893 - 894)
Russell S. Kirby and Marilyn L. Browne

Editorial: Editorial utility of population-based birth defects surveillance for monitoring the health of infants and as a foundation for etiologic research (pages 895 - 898)
Cynthia A. Moore and Edward R.B. McCabe

Issues involved in the phenotypic classification of orofacial clefts ascertained through a state birth defects registry for the North Carolina cleft outcomes study (pages 899 - 903)
Arthur S. Aylsworth, Alexander C. Allori, Luiz A. Pimenta, Jeffrey R. Marcus, Katherine G. Harmsen, Stephanie E. Watkins, Barry L. Ramsey, Ronald P. Strauss and Robert E. Meyer

Interpregnancy interval and birth defects  (904 - 912)
Adel Mburia-Mwalili and Wei Yang

Descriptive epidemiology of birth defects thought to arise by new mutation (pages 913 - 927)
Peter H. Langlois and Angela E. Scheuerle

Time trends in prevalence of gastroschisis in Texas, 1999 to 2011: Subgroup analyses by maternal and infant characteristics (pages 928 - 940)
Loc-Uyen T. Vo and Peter H. Langlois

Racial disparities in heterotaxy syndrome (pages 941 - 950)
Keila N. Lopez, Lisa K. Marengo, Mark A. Canfield, John W. Belmont and Heather A. Dickerson

Maternal asthma medication use during pregnancy and risk of congenital heart defects (pages 951 - 961)
Alissa R. Van Zutphen, Erin M. Bell, Marilyn L. Browne, Shao Lin, Angela E. Lin, Charlotte M. Druschel and for the National Birth Defects Prevention Study

Evaluating cost and resource use associated with pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart disease: Empiric estimates and sources of variation  (pages 962 - 971)
Matthew R. Reeder, Jaewhan Kim, Amy Nance, Sergey Krikov, Marcia L. Feldkamp, Harper Randall and Lorenzo D. Botto

Brief Report: Population-based birth defects data in the United States, 2008 to 2012: Presentation of state-specific data and descriptive brief on variability of prevalence  (pages 972 - 993)
Cara T. Mai, Jennifer Isenburg, Peter H. Langlois, CJ Alverson, Suzanne M. Gilboa, Russel Rickard, Mark A. Canfield, Suzanne B. Anjohrin, Philip J. Lupo, Deanna R. Jackson, Erin B. Stallings, Angela E. Scheuerle, Russell S. Kirby and for the National Birth Defects Prevention Network

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2014 Annual Report  
Special Issue: 2014 Congenital Malformations Surveillance Report
A Report from the National Birth Defects Prevention Network



November 2014
Volume 100 , Issue 11

Pages 813-904
Issue edited by: Russell S. Kirby, Marilyn L. Browne

Editorial: Applications of birth defects surveillance in epidemiology, health services research, and disease prevention (pages 813–814)
Russell S. Kirby and Marilyn L. Browne

Editorial: Leveraging birth defects surveillance data for health services research (pages 815–821)
Cynthia H. Cassell, Scott D. Grosse and Russell S. Kirby

Brief Report: Prevention of orofacial clefts caused by smoking: Implications of the Surgeon General's report (pages 822–825)
Margaret A. Honein, Owen Devine, Scott D. Grosse and Jennita Reefhuis
 
Hospitalizations and associated costs in a population-based study of children with down syndrome born in Florida (pages 826–836)
April L. Dawson, Cynthia H. Cassell, Matthew E. Oster, Richard S. Olney, Jean Paul Tanner, Russell S. Kirby, Jane Correia and Scott D. Grosse
 
Barriers to care for children with orofacial clefts in North Carolina (pages 837–847)
Cynthia H. Cassell, Paula Strassle, Dara D. Mendez, Kyung A. Lee, Anne Krohmer, Robert E. Meyer and Ronald P. Strauss
 
Brief Report: Pregnancy outcome in women assigned an ICD-9/ICD-9-CM 655.0 code “central nervous system malformation in fetus affecting management of pregnancy”: Can these codes aid in surveillance for central nervous system defects? (pages 848–851)
Jane A Evans
 
Sociodemographic and hispanic acculturation factors and isolated anotia/microtia (pages 852–862)
Adrienne T. Hoyt, Mark A. Canfield, Gary M. Shaw, Dorothy K. Waller, Kara N.D. Polen, Tunu Ramadhani, Marlene T. Anderka, Angela E. Scheuerle and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
 
Maternal periconceptional alcohol consumption and congenital limb deficiencies (pages 863–876)
Kristin M. Caspers Conway, Paul A. Romitti, Lewis Holmes, Richard S. Olney, Sandra D. Richardson and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
 
Maternal periconceptional occupational pesticide exposure and neural tube defects (pages 877–886)
Jennifer A. Makelarski, Paul A. Romitti, Carissa M. Rocheleau, Trudy L. Burns, Patricia A. Stewart, Martha A. Waters, Christina C. Lawson, Erin M. Bell, Shao Lin, Gary M. Shaw, Richard S. Olney and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
 
Geographic analysis of individual and environmental risk factors for hypospadias births (pages 887–894)
Jennifer J. Winston, Robert E. Meyer and Michael E. Emch
 
Brief Report: Birth defects data from population-based birth defects surveillance programs in the United States, 2007 to 2011: Highlighting orofacial clefts (pages 895–904)
Cara T. Mai, Cynthia H. Cassell, Robert E. Meyer, Jennifer Isenburg, Mark A. Canfield, Russel Rickard, Richard S. Olney, Erin B. Stallings, Meredith Beck, S. Shahrukh Hashmi, Sook Ja Cho, Russell S. Kirby and for the National Birth Defects Prevention Network
 
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2013 Annual Report


Special Issue: 2013 Congenital Malformations Surveillance Report
A Report from the National Birth Defects Prevention Network


October 2013
Volume 97 , Issue 10

Pages 617-707
Issue edited by: Russell S. Kirby, Marilyn L. Browne

Editorial: Birth defects surveillance: Epidemiology, health services research, public health, and prevention (pages 617-618)
Russell S. Kirby and Marilyn L. Browne

Prevalence and trends of selected congenital malformations in New York state, 1983 to 2007 (pages 619-627)
Keewan Kim, Ying Wang, Russell S. Kirby and Charlotte M. Druschel

Racial/ethnic disparities in timing of death during childhood among children with congenital heart defects (pages 628-640)
Wendy N. Nembhard, Ping Xu, Mary K. Ethen, David E. Fixler, Jason L. Salemi and Mark A. Canfield

Injury during pregnancy and nervous system birth defects: Texas, 1999 to 2003 (pages 641-648)
Erin K. Sauber-Schatz, Lisa M. Bodnar, Harold B. Weiss, John W. Wilson, Mark D. Pearlman and Nina Markovic

Estimate of the potential impact of folic acid fortification of corn masa flour on the prevention of neural tube defects (pages 649-657)
Sarah C. Tinker, Owen Devine, Cara Mai, Heather C. Hamner, Jennita Reefhuis, Suzanne M. Gilboa, Nicole F. Dowling and Margaret A. Honein

2012 Update on global prevention of folic acid–preventable spina bifida and anencephaly (pages 658-663)
Monica E. Youngblood, Rebecca Williamson, Karen N. Bell, Quentin Johnson, Vijaya Kancherla and Godfrey P. Oakley Jr.

Hospitalizations, costs, and mortality among infants with critical congenital heart disease: How important is timely detection? (pages 664-672)
Cora Peterson, April Dawson, Scott D. Grosse, Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso, Richard S. Olney, Jean Paul Tanner, Russell S. Kirby, Jane A. Correia, Sharon M. Watkins and Cynthia H. Cassell

Modeling travel impedance to medical care for children with birth defects using Geographic Information Systems (pages 673-684)
Eric M. Delmelle, Cynthia H. Cassell, Coline Dony, Elizabeth Radcliff, Jean Paul Tanner, Csaba Siffel and Russell S. Kirby

Factors associated with distance and time traveled to cleft and craniofacial care (pages 685-695)
Cynthia H. Cassell, Anne Krohmer, Dara D. Mendez, Kyung A. Lee, Ronald P. Strauss and Robert E. Meyer

Early prenatal exposure to air pollution and its associations with birth defects in a state-wide birth cohort from North Carolina (pages 696-701)
Lisa C. Vinikoor-Imler, J. Allen Davis, Robert E. Meyer and Thomas J. Luben

Poisson versus logistic regression in a descriptive epidemiologic analysis of data from a Birth Defects Registry (pages 702-707)
Peter H. Langlois, Mark A. Canfield and Michael D. Swartz

November 2013
Volume 97 , Issue 11

Pages 709-758
Issue edited by: Russell S. Kirby, Marilyn L. Browne

Brief Report: Selected birth defects data from population-based birth defects surveillance programs in the United States, 2006 to 2010: Featuring trisomy conditions (pages 709-725)
Cara T. Mai, James E. Kucik, Jennifer Isenburg, Marcia L. Feldkamp, Lisa K. Marengo, Erin M. Bugenske, Phoebe G. Thorpe, Jodi M. Jackson, Adolfo Correa, Russel Rickard, C.J. Alverson and Russell S. Kirby, for the National Birth Defects Prevention Network
  
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