Epidemiology of Birth Defects Based on a Birth Defect Surveillance System from 2005 to 2014 in Hunan Province, China

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Abstract

Objective

To describe the epidemiology of birth defects (BDs) in perinatal infants in Hunan Province, China, between 2005 and 2014.

Methods

The BD surveillance data of perinatal infants (for stillbirth, dead fetus or live birth between 28 weeks of gestation and 7 days after birth) were collected from 52 registered hospitals of Hunan between 2005 and 2014. The prevalence rates of BDs with 95% confidence interval (CI) and crude odds ratio (ORs) were calculated to examine the associations of infant gender, maternal age, and region (urban vs rural) with BDs.

Results

From 2005 to 2014, there were a total of 925413 perinatal infants of which 17753 had BDs, with the average prevalence of 191.84 per 10000 PIs (perinatal infants), showing a significant uptrend. The risks of BDs are higher in urban areas versus rural areas (OR = 1.20), in male infants versus female infants (OR = 1.19), and in mothers above age 35 versus those below age 35 (OR = 1.24). The main five types of BDs are Congenital heart defects (CHD), Other malformation of external ear (OMEE), Polydactyly, Congenital malformation of kidney (CMK), and Congenital talipes equinovarus (CTE). From 2005 to 2014, the prevalence rates (per 10000 PIs) of CHD and CMK increased significantly from 22.56 to 74 ( OR = 3.29, 95%CI: 2.65–4.11) and from 7.61 to 14.62 ( OR = 1.92, 95%CI:1.30–2.84), respectively; the prevalence rates of congenital hydrocephalus and neural tube defects (NTDs) decreased significantly from 11.8 to 5.29 ( OR = 0.45, 95%CI: 0.31–0.65) and from 7.87 to 1.74 ( OR = 0.22, 95%CI: 0.13–0.38), respectively.

Conclusions

The prevalence rates of specific BDs in perinatal infants in Hunan have changed in the last decade. Urban pregnant women, male perinatal infants, and mothers above age 35 present different prevalence rates of BDs. Wider use of new diagnosis technology, improving the ability of monitoring, strengthening the publicity and education are important to reduce the prevalence of BDs.

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Prevention of neural-tube defects with folic acid in China. China-U.S. Collaborative Project for Neural Tube Defect Prevention.

Robert J. Berry, Zhu Hua Li, J Erickson … (1999)

Periconceptional administration of folic acid can reduce a woman's risk of having a fetus or infant with a neural-tube defect. As part of a public health campaign conducted from 1993 to 1995 in an area of China with high rates of neural-tube defects (the northern region) and one with low rates (the southern region), we evaluated the outcomes of pregnancy in women who were asked to take a pill containing 400 microg of folic acid alone daily from the time of their premarital examination until the end of their first trimester of pregnancy. Among the fetuses or infants of 130,142 women who took folic acid at any time before or during pregnancy and 117,689 women who had not taken folic acid, we identified 102 and 173, respectively, with neural-tube defects. Among the fetuses or infants of women who registered before their last menstrual period and who did not take any folic acid, the rates of neural-tube defects were 4.8 per 1000 pregnancies of at least 20 weeks' gestation in the northern region and 1.0 per 1000 in the southern region. Among the fetuses or infants of the women with periconceptional use of folic acid, the rates were 1.0 per 1000 in the northern region and 0.6 per 1000 in the southern region. The greatest reduction in risk occurred among the fetuses or infants of a subgroup of women in the northern region with periconceptional use who took folic acid pills more than 80 percent of the time (reduction in risk, 85 percent as compared with the fetuses or infants of women who registered before their last menstrual period and who took no folic acid; 95 percent confidence interval, 62 to 94 percent) [corrected]. In the southern region the reduction in risk among the fetuses or infants of women with periconceptional use of folic acid was also significant (reduction in risk, 41 percent; 95 percent confidence interval, 3 to 64 percent). Periconceptional intake of 400 microg of folic acid daily can reduce the risk of neural-tube defects in areas with high rates of these defects and in areas with low rates.

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Many central nervous system (CNS) diseases display sexual dimorphism. Exposure to circulating sex steroids is felt to be a chief contributor to this phenomenon; however, CNS diseases of childhood and the elderly also demonstrate gender predominance and/or a sexually dimorphic response to therapies. Here we show that XY and XX neurons cultured separately are differentially susceptible to various cytotoxic agents and treatments. XY neurons were more sensitive to nitrosative stress and excitotoxicity versus XX neurons. In contrast, XX neurons were more sensitive to etoposide- and staurosporine-induced apoptosis versus XY neurons. The responses to specific therapies were also sexually dimorphic. Moreover, gender proclivity in programmed cell death pathway was observed. After cytotoxic challenge, programmed cell death proceeded predominately via an apoptosis-inducing factor-dependent pathway in XY neurons versus a cytochrome c-dependent pathway in XX neurons. This gender-dependent susceptibility is related to the incapacity of XY neurons to maintain intracellular levels of reduced glutathione. In vivo studies further demonstrated an incapacity for male, but not female, 17-day-old rats to maintain reduced glutathione levels within cerebral cortex acutely after an 8-min asphyxial cardiac arrest. This gender difference in sensitivity to cytotoxic agents may be generalized to nonneuronal cells, as splenocytes from male and female 16-18-day-old rats show similar gender-dependent responses to nitrosative stress and staurosporine-induced apoptosis. These data support gender stratification in the evaluation of mechanisms and treatment of CNS disease, particularly those where glutathione may play a role in detoxification, such as Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and conditions producing cerebral ischemia, and may apply to non-CNS diseases as well.

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Birth defects surveillance in China.

Li M. Dai, Jun Zhu, Juan Liang … (2011)

Birth defects are a global public health problem because of their large contribution to infant mortalities and disabilities. It is estimated that 4%-6% of Chinese newborns are affected by birth defects every year. Surveillance is a basic approach to understanding the occurrence and associated factors of birth defects. The Ministry of Health of China initiated a national hospital-based birth defects monitoring system 20 years ago. Nearly every province in this country has established its own surveillance system in the past. The authors reviewed the result of the monitoring system at different administrative levels in China. Available publications on the surveillance of birth defects and data from national and provincial birth defects surveillance systems were reviewed to evaluate the effectiveness of the surveillance systems. According to the 2009 data, the national hospital-based birth defects surveillance system monitored over 1.3 million births, which accounted for more than 8% of births in China. In addition, 30 provincial hospital-based surveillance programs covered a birth population of more than 3.6 million (22% of births in China). Great achievements have been made in terms of case ascertainment, data quality control, and online reporting. But the surveillance systems in China still have some limitations. A short ascertainment period may miss some internal anomalies, inherited metabolic diseases, and malformed fetus aborted before the 28th gestational week. Discrepancies in antenatal or postnatal diagnosis of birth defects between surveillance institutes may affect the detection rate and introduce biases. Absence of baseline data and lack of integrated database systems limit the application of surveillance data to etiological studies and affect the process of decision-making. The surveillance system for birth defects is prerequisite to propose, conduct and assess any interventions for the disease. To meet the need of study and prevention of birth defects, measures should be taken to improve the national and provincial birth defects surveillance systems in China.

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Publication date (Electronic): 26 January 2016

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[1 ]Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistic, School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan, 410078, P.R of China

[2 ]Department of Information management, Maternal and Children hospital of Hunan province, 58 Xiangchun Road, Changsha, Hunan, 410078, P.R of China

Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX TY ZL HW. Performed the experiments: DX ZL HW. Analyzed the data: DX TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DX ZL. Wrote the paper: DX TY.

* E-mail: Yangtbcsu@ 123456163.com

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147280

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Date received : 7 October 2015

Date accepted : 2 January 2016

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Data Availability For approved reasons, some access restrictions apply to the data underlying the findings. The original data for this study were abstracted from the surveillance system required by government. The websites are as follows: http://222.247.54.150:7101/phmchrs (Ministry of Health of Hunan) and http://www.mchscn.org/zbasp.asp (Ministry of Health of China). In principle, the ownership of the data belongs to the Ministry of Health of China (MOH) and Ministry of Health of Hunan. Non-profit uses of the data in research are encouraged, but the data access needs an approval from the MOH and Ministry of Health of Hunan. Researchers interested in the data can contact Li Dai at the National Center for Birth Defects ( daili@ 123456scu.edu.cn ) and Donghua Xie at the Maternal and Children hospital of Hunan province ( xiangyabob0606@ 123456126.com ).

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