Birth weight and gestational age of newborns with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and with isolated cleft palate

Diego F Wyszynski; Andrea Sarkozi; Peter Vargha; Andrew E Czeizel

doi:10.17796/jcpd.27.2.475367q2601u3x4w

Birth weight and gestational age of newborns with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and with isolated cleft palate

J Clin Pediatr Dent. 2003 Winter;27(2):185-90. doi: 10.17796/jcpd.27.2.475367q2601u3x4w.

Authors

Diego F Wyszynski¹, Andrea Sarkozi, Peter Vargha, Andrew E Czeizel

Affiliation

¹ Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany Street, L-320, Boston, MA 02118, USA. dfw@bu.edu

PMID: 12597694
DOI: 10.17796/jcpd.27.2.475367q2601u3x4w

Abstract

The birth weight and gestational age of 1368 newborns with isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate and 582 with isolated cleft palate were compared to those of matched healthy controls. The results indicate that fetuses with oral clefts are at elevated risk of having low and very low birth weight, but not of having a premature birth. Speculations on a relationship between these findings and the presence of oral clefts are presented.

MeSH terms

Adult
Case-Control Studies
Cleft Lip* / epidemiology
Cleft Palate* / epidemiology
Female
Gestational Age
Humans
Hungary / epidemiology
Infant, Low Birth Weight*
Infant, Newborn
Logistic Models
Male
Odds Ratio
Parents
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications / epidemiology
Risk Factors
Social Class
Statistics, Nonparametric