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Vietnam veterans' risks for fathering babies with birth defects
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August 1984
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Description:Vietnam veterans' risks for fathering babies born with major structural birth defects were assessed by using a case-control study design. Case group index babies were registered by the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC's) Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program during the years 1968-1980. With data from multiple sources, this program ascertains live and stillborn babies with structural defects born to women who are residents of the five- county metropolitan Atlanta area. To be included in the registry, a baby's birth defects diagnosis must have been made during the first year of life and recorded in a hospital chart by a physician. Control group index babies—babies born without defects—were selected from among the 323,421 babies who were live born in the area to resident mothers during 1968 through 1980. The control group index babies were frequency matched to the case group index babies by race, year of birth, and hospital of birth ("sampling design variables"). The number of case group families eligible for the study was 7,1 33, as were 4,246 control group families.
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