Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome: Comparison of Screening Practices in the UK and USA
โ Scribed by Dagmar Tapon
- Book ID
- 106413945
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 323 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1059-7700
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Maternal serum screening for Down syndrome involves biochemical tests such as alpha-fetoprotein ( FP), human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) and unconjugated oestriol (uE 3 ), either alone or in combination, that have variable detection and false-positive rates. Choosing a screening protocol requires
We aimed to determine how differences in the age at which women had their pregnancies influenced the expected detection and false-positive rates of serum screening for Down 's syndrome (i) between 1970 and 1993 in England and Wales, and (ii) between regions and districts of England and Wales in 1991