TABLE III.

Prevalence of Amelia From Various Published Studies

Study	Prevalence	Population/sample
Referred to total births
Castilla et al. [1995]	1.71 per 100,000 births	2,917,074 births
Evans et al. [1994]	1.02 per 100,000 births	1,575,904 births
Källén et al. [1984]	0.95 per 100,000 births	1,368,024 births
Martínez-Frías et al. [1997a]	1.50 per 100,000 births	1,198,580 births
Mastroiacovo et al. [1992]	1.50 per 100,000 births	9,848,000 births
Referred to live births
Bod et al. [1983]	0.53 per 100,000 LB	561,915 LB
Froster-Iskenius and Baird [1990]	1.48 per 100,000 LB	1,213,913 LB
Martínez-Frías et al. [1997a]	1.12 per 100,000 LB	1,333,879 LB
Birch-Jensen [1949]	0.2a per 100,000 LB	Nonspecified number of LB
Referred to stillbirths
Martínez-Frías et al. [1997a]	34.56 per 100,000 SB	8,680 SB
Froster and Baird [1993]	79.05 per 100,000 SB	7,590 SB

LB, live births; SB: stillbirths.

^aIncludes only amelia of the upper limb.