Effect of Newborn Screening for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
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Effect of newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of diagnosis and morbidity in newborns who were screened with newborns who were not screened for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. PATIENTS An unscreened population in Arkansas and Oklahoma (n = 400118) was compared with a screened population in Texas (n = 1613378) during a 5...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1072-4710
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.153.12.1272