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Causes
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Overview
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Screening
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- Causes
- Genetics, exposure to certain medications or chemicals, certain infections during pregnancy
- Deaths
- 628,000 (2015)
- Frequency
- 3% of newborns (US)
- Other names
- Congenital disorder, congenital disease, congenital deformity, congenital anomaly
- Risk factors
- Insufficient folic acid, drinking alcohol or smoking, poorly controlled diabetes
- Specialty
- Medical genetics, pediatrics
Topics to explore
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Overview
- Birth Childbirth
- Disabilities Disability
- Physical Physical disability
- Intellectual disability
- Developmental Developmental disability
- Functional disorders Functional disorder
- Metabolic Metabolic disorder
- Degenerative disorders Degenerative disease
- Genetic Genetic disorder
- Chromosomal disorders Chromosome abnormality
- Infections during pregnancy Vertically transmitted infection
- Folate deficiency
- Drinking alcohol Alcohol drink
- Smoking Smoking and pregnancy
- Diabetes Gestational diabetes
- Screening tests Newborn screening
- Prenatal tests Prenatal testing
- Therapy
- Assistive technology
- Congenital heart disease
- Neural tube defects
- Minor physical anomalies
- Clinodactyly
- Preauricular Preauricular sinus and cyst
- Metacarpal
- Metatarsal
- Sacral dimples Sacral dimple
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Cleft palate
- Dysplasia
Classification
- Genome mapping Gene mapping
- Inborn error of metabolism
Causes
- Fetal alcohol syndrome Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Toxicity
- Teratogens Teratology
- Drugs in pregnancy
- Environmental toxins in pregnancy
- Folate antagonism
- Neural crest cell
- Endocrine disruption
- Oxidative damage Oxidative stress
- Vascular Blood vessel
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- CompTox Chemicals Dashboard
- In silico
- Pluripotent
- Stem cell
- In vivo
- Metabolism
- Developmental toxicity
- Fetus
- Neonates
- Lymphocytes Lymphocyte
- Brain tumors
- Lymphoma
- Infection
- Bacteria
- Viruses Virus
- Parasites Parasite
- Transmitted Transmission (medicine)
- Embryo
- Norman Gregg
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Birth defect
Top relations
related to Socioeconomics · 17
Birth defect → After, AIDS, Bradley, Cartairs-Morris, Corwyn, In, In Vos, Index, Jarman, Multiple Deprivation, Other, SES, Socioeconomic, Studies, The Jarman, Townsend, Vos
related to Radiation · 15
Birth defect → Animal, Chernobyl, DNA, Following, For, Hibakusha, Hiroshima, Japanese, More, Nagasaki, Relatively, The, This, World Health Organization, X-ray
related to Genetics · 8
Birth defect → Chromosomal, DNA, Genetic, If, Large, Male, Single-gene, Some
related to Unknown · 8
Birth defect → Although, Another, Congenital, For, Of, One, Only, These
related to United States · 6
Birth defect → About, Down, Key, National Birth Defect Project, The CDC, US
see also · 5
Birth defect → Birth Defects Prevention Network, Congenital, DimesMitochondrial, ICD-9, IdiopathicList
related to External links · 4
Birth defect → Birth Defects, Developmental Disabilities, National Center, WHO
related to Alcohol exposure · 3
Birth defect → Canada, The, There
is a · 2
Birth defect → abnormal condition that is present at birth, widely used term for a congenital malformation
Causes · 1
Birth defect → Genetics, exposure to certain medications or chemicals, certain infections during pregnancy
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Birth defect | Causes | Genetics, exposure to certain medications or chemicals, certain infections during pregnancy | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Deaths | 628,000 (2015) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Frequency | 3% of newborns (US) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Other names | Congenital disorder, congenital disease, congenital deformity, congenital anomaly | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Risk factors | Insufficient folic acid, drinking alcohol or smoking, poorly controlled diabetes | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Specialty | Medical genetics, pediatrics | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Symptoms | Physical disability, intellectual disability, developmental disability | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Treatment | Therapy, medication, surgery, assistive technology | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Types | Structural, functional | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | Usual onset | Present at birth | 1.00 | infobox |
| Birth defect | is a | abnormal condition that is present at birth | 0.90 | text |
| Birth defect | is a | widely used term for a congenital malformation | 0.90 | text |
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Nodes239
Edges238
Triples107
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008368
Components1
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