Trends in the incidence of congenital malformations in the Russian Federation (according to the 2006—2012 Congenital Malformations Monitoring Base data)

Abstract

The paper presents the results of analyzing the data of congenital malformation monitoring in 31 regions of the Russian Federation during 2006—2012. The analysis of the common database has yielded rates of all malformation cases notified in their departments, as well as those of a group of selective defects (21 identified forms), allowing for comparing inter- and intraregional comparisons. The rate of all registered malformations was 23.04 per 1000 births. The variations in the overall rate of malformations in the period under study are not statistically significant. The estimates for the rates of individual malformation forms in the Russian registry are given in comparison with the EUROCAT data