Worldwide, congenital anomalies are a leading cause of fetal death, infant mortality and morbidity in childhood. According to the EUROCAT estimates, of the 5.1 million births in the European Union (EU) each year approximately 127,000 (2.5%) have a congenital anomaly.
EUROCAT is a European network of population-based registries whose objectives are to provide essential epidemiologic information on congenital anomalies in Europe, to facilitate the early warning of new teratogenic exposures and to evaluate the effectiveness of primary prevention.
Each year, EUROCAT performs statistical monitoring for both trends and clusters in time on 84 anomaly subgroups. The results of the statistical monitoring are the basis for instigating possible further investigations at the local registry level.
The present report shows the results of the monitoring performed on data for the birth years 2008-2017 by the JRC-EUROCAT Central Registry. Cases of congenital anomaly among livebirths, fetal deaths from 20 weeks gestational age and terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomaly following prenatal diagnosis at any gestational age were included. We report both the statistical results and, where available, the outcome of the preliminary investigations conducted by registries.
KINSNER-OVASKAINEN Agnieszka;
MORRIS Joan;
GARNE Ester;
LOANE Maria;
LANZONI Monica;
2020-08-06
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC120236
978-92-76-17771-5 (online),
978-92-76-17770-8 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 30158 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30158-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-30158-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC120236,
10.2760/575186 (online),
10.2760/65886 (print),
