birth prevalence of CA in the UAE. It may be connected partly with the significant reduction of infectious diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and other environmental causes in past years, partly with the lack of elective abortion of malformed fetuses.
Unique demographic situation in the United Arab Emirates
β Scribed by Hosani, Hager Al ;Czeizel, Andrew E.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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