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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2010 Jan;88(1):41–47. doi: 10.1002/bdra.20607

Table 1.

The Prevalence (per 10,000 Births) and Relative Proportions (%) of Oral Clefts in Chinese Newbornsa in the Years 1996–2005

Cleft type Nonsyndromic
Syndromic
Total
N (%) Rate (95% CI) N (%) Rate (95% CI) N (%) Rate (95% CI)
CP 976 (14.02) 2.00 (1.87–2.12) 279 (23.81) 0.57 (0.50–0.64) 1255 (15.43) 2.57 (2.42–2.71)
CL/P 5985 (85.98) 12.24 (11.93–12.55) 893 (76.19) 1.83 (1.71–1.95) 6878 (84.57) 14.06 (13.73–14.39)
CL 2258 (32.44) 4.62 (4.43–4.81) 295 (25.17) 0.60 (0.53–0.67) 2553 (31.39) 5.22 (5.02–5.42)
CLP 3727 (53.54) 7.62 (7.37–7.86) 598 (51.02) 1.22 (1.12–1.32) 4325 (53.18) 8.84 (8.58–9.11)
Total 6961 (100) 14.23 (13.90–14.57) 1172 (100) 2.40 (2.26–2.53) 8133 (100) 16.63 (16.27–16.99)
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Total newborns in the years 1996–2005 were 4,891,472.

CI, confidence interval; CP, cleft palate; CL/P, cleft lip with or without cleft palate; CL, cleft lip; CLP, cleft lip with cleft palate.