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Women With Pre-pregnancy STD, UTI may Deliver Babies With Severe Birth Defects
Gastroschisis is a birth defect in which infants are born with their intestines and other internal organs outside the abdomen.
Headed by Marcia L. Feldkamp, Ph.D., P.A., assistant professor of pediatrics at the U School of Medicine and director of the Utah Birth Defect Network, this study may partly tell about a global increase in gastroschisis.
"Gastroschisis is a public health issue worldwide, and the prevalence is on the rise in Utah. We don't understand why this is occurring. But the incidence of STDs is also increasing and there may be a connection," The British Medical Journal quoted Feldkamp, as saying.
Feldkamp said that one of the study conducted by other Utah researchers reported a tenfold increase in gastroschisis from 1971-2002.
The researchers believe that gastroschisis may be caused by environmental and maternal factors. This birth defect is also influenced by the age of a woman giving birth. As compared to women over 25 years of age, women less than 20 years old are 11 times more likely to have babies with gastroschisis.
This Utah study is a multi-site national investigation using birth defect surveillance systems in Utah and nine other states, namely Arkansas, California, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.
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