Table 2.

Participation NBS, health status of the children and familial hereditary disorders.

	Research population
	N = 659	%
Did all your children participate in the dutch NBS program?
Yes	644	99.5
No	5	0.5
Missing	10
What was the NBS result for your child (-ren)?
Normal	643	99.5
Abnormal	2	0.3
I'd rather not say	1	0.2
Missing	13
Are your children healthy?a
Yes	628	96.0
No	24	3.7
I'd rather not say	2	0.3
Missing	5
Do you have a family member with a hereditary disorder?b
Yes	112	17.2
No	501	76.8
I don't know	35	5.4
I'd rather not say	4	0.6
Missing	7

Missing values were excluded from the percentages.

^aAnswers included a wide variety of hereditary disorders including Down Syndrome, Fragile X-syndrome, metabolic diseases, and diabetes mellitus type 1.

^bAnswers included a broad spectrum of disorders such as malignancies, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune diseases.