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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2011 Oct 14;0(4):321–332. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.30316

TABLE III.

Characteristics of Nonsyndromic Cases With Bladder Exstrophy (BE) Reported by 22 Surveillance Programs of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research (ICBDSR)

All cases (n = 537)
Cases with isolated BE (n = 381)
Cases with BE and MCA (n = 156)
n (%) n (%) n (%)
Sex
 Male 320 59.6 257 67.5 63 40.4
 Female 173 32.2 123 32.3 50 32.1
 Indeterminate 41 7.6 0 0.0 41 26.3
 Missing data 3 0.6 1 0.3 2 1.3
Outcome
 Live births 494 92.0 371 97.4 123 78.8
 Stillbirths 20 3.7 4 1.0 16 10.3
 ETOPFA 21 3.9 4 1.0 17 10.9
 Missing data 2 0.4 2 0.5 0 0.0
Birth weight among live births (g)
 <1,500 9 1.8 2 0.5 7 5.7
 1,500–2,499 59 11.9 28 7.5 31 25.2
 >2,500 412 83.4 330 88.9 82 66.7
 Missing data 14 2.8 11 3.0 3 2.4
Gestational age among live births (weeks)
 <32 12 2.4 4 1.1 8 6.5
 32–36 57 11.5 26 7.0 31 25.2
 ≥37 385 77.9 304 81.9 81 65.9
 Missing data 40 8.1 37 10.0 3 2.4
Parity
 0 102 19.0 76 19.9 26 16.7
 1 141 26.3 93 24.4 48 30.8
 ≥2 104 19.4 67 17.6 37 23.7
 Missing data 190 35.4 145 38.1 45 28.8
Previous spontaneous abortions
 0 184 34.3 130 34.1 54 34.6
 ≥1 35 6.5 20 5.2 15 9.6
 Missing data 318 59.2 231 60.6 87 55.8
Plurality
 Single 489 91.1 347 91.1 142 91.0
 Twin 16 3.0 8 2.1 8 5.1
 Triplet 1 0.2 1 0.3 0 0.0
 Missing data 31 5.8 25 6.6 6 3.8
Maternal education (years)
 <9 57 10.6 32 8.4 25 16.0
 ≥9 103 19.2 77 20.2 26 16.7
 Missing data 377 70.2 272 71.4 105 67.3

ETOPFA, elective termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly.

Syndromic cases (n = 9) were excluded from analysis.