...Johanna H. Kleinveld; Matthijs van den Berg; Jacques T.M. van Eijk; John M.G. van Vugt; Gerrit van der Wal; Daniëlle R.M. Timmermans Objectives: This study aims to find out whether offering prenatal screening for Down syndrome and neural tube defects influences pregnant women’s attitudes toward...

...Mirjam Hoogendoorn; Silvia M.A.A. Evers; Peter C.J.I. Schielen; Marianne L.L. van Genugten; G. Ardine de Wit; André J.H.A. Ament Objectives: To evaluate prenatal screening methods for Down syndrome and neural tube defects (NTD) with regard to costs per detected case and the number of screening...

...Mansooreh Saniei; Elnaz Jafari Mehr; Saeed Shahraz; Ladan Naz Zahedi; Ala Melati Rad; Saye Sayar; Roya Sherafat Kazemzade; Ahmad Shekarchi; Mohammad Reza Zali Objective: Prenatal screening has become an increasingly common procedure all over the world. It offers couples useful information relating...

... to in the content or advertisements. Prenatal screening Information Decision-making Down syndrome Until the late 1980s, maternal age of 38 and over was the main indication for prenatal diagnosis in France. When the assay of maternal serum markers was introduced in order to assess individual risk...

.... Prenatal screening Triple test Down syndrome Follow-up study The early identification of an increased risk for a specific genetic condition by a genetic screening programme has the potential to prevent or reduce human suffering, but the offer of a screening test can also cause suffering...

.... Results: MSS could double the number of detected cases, reduce the number of amniocenteses per detected case and the number of procedure-related miscarriage per detected case. Even though MSS is cost-effective, prenatal screening and diagnosis would detect only 50% or less of expected DS cases. Conclusion...

... to in the content or advertisements. Prenatal screening Down syndrome Amniocentesis Logistic regression model Maternal age Race and ethnicity Risk Ultrasound Prenatal screening for fetuses affected with Down syndrome has become a routine component of prenatal care. In the United States, most...

.... Birth defects Prenatal screening Prevention Ultrasound screening Population screening It is not easy to define precisely a birth defect, but a working definition is a gross anatomic developmental anomaly present at birth or found during the first year of life. Under this definition...