A case-control study using data from the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study (BWIS) examined possible paternal risk factors in the etiology of isolated membranous ventricular septal defects (VSD). There were 641 total VSD case infants and 3,549 randomly selected control infants ascertained between 198
Risk factors for ventricular septal defects (VSD)
✍ Scribed by Stefan Redéen; Dr. Gun Wingren
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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