Articles of Potential Interest
May 2008 *

Adjei AA, Gaedigk A, Simon SD, Weinshilboum RM, Leeder JS. 2008. Interindividual variability in acetaminophen sulfation by human fetal liver: implications for pharmacogenetic investigations of drug-induced birth defects. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(3): 155-165. Abstract

Almeida LC, Tomita LY, D'Almeida V, Cardoso MA. 2008. Socio-demographic, lifestyle, gynecological, and obstetric predictors of serum or plasma concentrations of homocysteine, folic acid, and vitamins B-12 and B-6 among low-income women in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Cad Saude Publica 24(3): 587-596. Abstract

Amitai Y, Fisher N, Meiraz H, Baram N, Tounis M, Leventhal A. 2008. Preconceptional folic acid utilization in Israel: five years after the guidelines. Prev Med 46(2): 166-169. Abstract

Amorim LF, Pires CA, Lana AM, Campos AS, Aguiar RA, Tibúrcio JD, Siqueira AL, Mota CC, Aguiar MJ. 2008. Presentation of congenital heart disease diagnosed at birth: analysis of 29,770 newborn infants. J Pediatr (Rio J) 84(1): 83-90. Abstract

Bjørge T, Cnattingius S, Lie RT, Tretli S, Engeland A. 2008. Cancer risk in children with birth defects and in their families: a population based cohort study of 5.2 million children from Norway and Sweden. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17(3): 500-506. Abstract

Boulet SL, Rasmussen SA, Honein MA. 2008. A population-based study of craniosynostosis in metropolitan Atlanta, 1989-2003. Am J Med Genet A 146A(8): 984-991. Abstract

Boyd PA, Devigan C, Khoshnood B, Loane M, Garne E, Dolk H, EUROCAT Working Group. 2008. Survey of prenatal screening policies in Europe for structural malformations and chromosome anomalies, and their impact on detection and termination rates for neural tube defects and Down's syndrome. BJOG 115(6): 689-696. Abstract

Brender JD, Suarez L, Langlois PH. 2008. Parental occupation, Hispanic ethnicity, and risk of selected congenital malformations in offspring. Ethn Dis 18(2): 218-224. Abstract

Brender JD, Zhan FB, Langlois PH, Suarez L, Scheuerle A. 2008. Residential proximity to waste sites and industrial facilities and chromosomal anomalies in offspring. Int J Hyg Environ Health 211(1-2): 50-58. Abstract

Capozzi G, Caputo S, Pizzuti R, Martina L, Santoro M, Santoro G, Sarubbi B, Iacono C, D'Alto M, Bigazzi MC, Pacileo G, Merlino E, Caianiello G, Russo MG, Calabrò R. 2008. Congenital heart disease in live-born children: incidence, distribution, and yearly changes in the Campania Region. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 9(4): 368-374. Abstract

Crider KS, Olney RS, Cragan JD. 2008. Trisomies 13 and 18: Population prevalences, characteristics, and prenatal diagnosis, metropolitan Atlanta, 1994-2003. Am J Med Genet A 146(7): 820-826. Abstract

de Vigan C, Khoshnood B, Cadio E, Vodovar V, Goffinet F. 2008. Prenatal diagnosis and prevalence of Down syndrome in the Parisian population, 2001-2005. Gynecol Obstet Fertil 36(2): 146-150. Abstract

de Walle HE, de Jong-van den Berg LT. 2008. Ten years after the Dutch public health campaign on folic acid: the continuing challenge. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 64(5): 539-543. Abstract

Diav-Citrin O, Shechtman S, Bar-Oz B, Cantrell D, Arnon J, Ornoy A. 2008. Pregnancy outcome after in utero exposure to valproate - evidence of dose relationship in teratogenic effect. CNS Drugs 22(4): 325-334. Abstract

Dulskiene V, Malinauskiene V, Azaraviciene A, Kuciene R. 2008. The incidence and diagnostics of congenital heart defects in Kaunas infant population during 1999-2005. Medicina (Kaunas) 44(2): 139-146. Abstract

Ferreira AF, Giugliani R. 2008. Consumption of folic acid-fortified flour and folate-rich foods among women at reproductive age in south Brazil. Community Genet 11(3): 179-184. Abstract

Freeman SB, Bean LH, Allen EG, Tinker SW, Locke AE, Druschel C, Hobbs CA, Romitti PA, Royle MH, Torfs CP, Dooley KJ, Sherman SL. 2008. Ethnicity, sex, and the incidence of congenital heart defects: a report from the National Down Syndrome Project. Genet Med 10(3): 173-180. Abstract

Gambhir L, Höller T, Müller M, Schott G, Vogt H, Detlefsen B, Ebert AK, Fisch M, Beaudoin S, Stein R, Boyadjiev SA, Gearhart JP, Rösch W, Utsch B, Boemers TM, Reutter H, Ludwig M. 2008. Epidemiological survey of 214 families with bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex. J Urol 179(4): 1539-1543. Abstract

Malik S, Cleves MA, Honein MA, Romitti PA, Botto LD, Yang S, Hobbs CA, National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 2008. Maternal smoking and congenital heart defects. Pediatrics 121(4): e810-e816. Abstract

Mezzomo CL, Garcias Gde L, Sclowitz ML, Sclowitz IT, Brum CB, Fontana T, Unfried RI. 2007. Prevention of neural tube defects: prevalence of folic acid supplementation during pregnancy and associated factors in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Cad Saude Publica 23(11): 2716-2726. Abstract

Nilsen RM, Vollset SE, Rasmussen SA, Ueland PM, Daltveit AK. 2008. Folic acid and multivitamin supplement use and risk of placental abruption: A population-based registry study. Am J Epidemiol 167(7): 867-874. Abstract

Peiris-John RJ, Wickremasinghe R. 2008. Impact of low-level exposure to organophosphates on human reproduction and survival. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 102(3): 239-245. Abstract

Rahimi R, Nikfar S, Rezaie A, Abdollahi M. 2008. Pregnancy outcome in women with inflammatory bowel disease following exposure to 5-aminosalicylic acid drugs: A meta-analysis. Reprod Toxicol 25(2): 271-275. Abstract

Stanisławska-Sachadyn A, Brown KS, Mitchell LE, Woodside JV, Young IS, Scott JM, Murray L, Boreham CA, McNulty H, Strain JJ, Whitehead AS. 2008. An insertion/deletion polymorphism of the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) gene is associated with serum and red blood cell folate concentrations in women. Hum Genet 123(3): 289-295. Abstract

Suarez L, Felkner M, Brender JD, Canfield M, Hendricks K. 2008. Maternal exposures to cigarette smoke, alcohol, and street drugs and neural tube defect occurrence in offspring. Matern Child Health J 12(3): 394-401. Abstract

Toh S, Mitchell AA, Werler MM, Hernández-Díaz S. 2008. Sensitivity and specificity of computerized algorithms to classify gestational periods in the absence of information on date of conception. Am J Epidemiol 167(6): 633-640. Abstract

Yang W, Shaw GM, Carmichael SL, Rasmussen SA, Waller DK, Pober BR, Anderka M, National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 2008. Nutrient intakes in women and congenital diaphragmatic hernia in their offspring. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(3): 131-138. Abstract

Yazdy MM, Autry AR, Honein MA, Frias JL. 2008. Use of special education services by children with orofacial clefts. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 82(3): 147-154. Abstract

Zeitlin J, Draper ES, Kollée L, Milligan D, Boerch K, Agostino R, Gortner L, Van Reempts P, Chabernaud JL, Gadzinowski J, Bréart G, Papiernik E, MOSAIC research group. 2008. Differences in rates and short-term outcome of live births before 32 weeks of gestation in Europe in 2003: Results from the MOSAIC cohort. Pediatrics 121(4): e936-e944. Abstract

*This list was compiled from searches of articles published in April 2008, excluding articles summarized in previous API lists. Questions or comments about this list may be sent to webmaster@nbdpn.org.