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Articles
A Population-Based Study of
Survival and Childbearing among Female Subjects with
Birth Defects and the Risk of Recurrence in Their
Children. Skjaerven
R, Wilcox AJ, Lie RT N Engl J Med 1999 Apr
8;340(14):1057-1062 NEJM
Original Article
The paper shows that women born with birth defects
are less likely to have children and of those that do,
they also have a higher incidence of child death.