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Birth Defects
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports on birth defects hospitalizations
February 12th, 2007
People born with a hole between the two smaller chambers of the heart - known as atrial septal defect - or with other heart and circulatory conditions, accounted for a third of the 139,100 hospital admissions for birth defects in 2004, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Digestive problems such as pyloric stenosis, a narrowing of the stomach that causes vomiting, were the second-leading category of birth defects. They accounted for nearly 29,000 admissions, or about 19% of all birth defect cases, followed by genitourinary birth defects (9%) and nervous system birth defects (5%). The remaining 34% of birth defects included problems such as cleft...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-02-12)
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