Long term trends in prevalence of neural tube defects in Europe: population based study
Babak Khoshnood, senior researcher 1, Maria Loane, lecturer in public health 2, Hermien de Walle, registry leader 3, Larraitz Arriola, epidemiologist 4, Marie-Claude Addor, medical geneticist 5, Ingeborg Barisic, professor 6, Judit Beres, senior researcher in genetics 7, Fabrizio Bianchi, epidemiologist and registry leader 8, Carlos Dias, head of the department of epidemiology 9, Elizabeth Draper, professor of perinatal and paediatric epidemiology 10, Ester Garne, neonatologist and registry leader 11, Miriam Gatt, consultant in public health 12, Martin Haeusler, professor 13, Kari Klungsoyr, professor 14, Anna Latos-Bielenska, professor 15, Catherine Lynch, specialist in public health medicine 16, Bob McDonnell, consultant in public health medicine 17, Vera Nelen, director 18, Amanda J Neville, registry leader 19, Mary T O’Mahony, specialist in public health medicine 20, Annette Queisser-Luft, senior physician 21, Judith Rankin, professor 22, Anke Rissmann, professor of paediatrics 23, Annukka Ritvanen, registry leader and chief physician 24, Catherine Rounding, acting registry leader 25, Antonin Sipek, medical geneticist and neonatologist 26, David Tucker, CARIS registry manager 27, Christine Verellen-Dumoulin, professor 28, Diana Wellesley, consultant in clinical genetics 29, Helen Dolk, professor of epidemiology and health services research 2
1 Obstetrical, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team, Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, INSERM U1153, Maternité de Port-Royal, 75014 Paris, France;
2 EUROCAT Central Registry, Centre for Maternal, Fetal and Infant Research, Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, UK;
3 EUROCAT Northern Netherlands Registry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, Netherlands;
4 Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Instituto BIO-Donostia Basque Government CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública - CIBERESP, San Sebatian, Spain;
5 Service de Genetique Medicale Maternite, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland;
6 Children’s University Hospital of Zagreb, Clinical Hospital Sisters of Mercy, Zagreb, Croatia; 7 National Institute of Health Development, Department of Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry and Surveillance, Budapest, Hungary;
8 CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology and Tuscany Registry of Congenital Defects, “Gabrielle Monasterio” Foundation, Pisa, Italy;
9Instituto Nacionale de Saude Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal;
10 Departmentof Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK;
11 Hospital Lillebaelt, Kolding, Denmark;
12 Department of Health Information and Research,Guardamangia, Malta;
13 Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria;
14 Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;
15 Department of Medical Genetics, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland;
16 Public Health Department, HSE South, Lacken, Kilkenny, Ireland;
17 Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland;
18 Provincial Institute for Hygiene, Antwerp, Belgium;
19 Registro IMER - IMER Registry (Emilia Romagna Registry of Birth Defects), Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy;
20 Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive - South, Ireland;
21 Birth Registry Mainz Model, Childrens Hospital, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany;
22 Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK;
23 Malformation Monitoring Centre Saxony-Anhalt, Medical Faculty Otto-von-Guericke University,
Magdeburg, Germany;
24 National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland;
25 National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;
26 National Registry of Congenital Anomalies of the Czech Republic, Department of Medical Genetics, Thomayer University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic;
27 Public Health Wales, Swansea, UK;
28 Center for Human Genetics, Institut de Recherche Scientifique en Pathologie et en Génétique, Charleroi, Belgium;
29 University Hospitals Southampton, Faculty of Medicine and Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Southampton, UK
The British Medical Journal