The number of birth defects in children has increased

Birth defects are more common today than the 50th of each child, as established by researchers from the British Association Binocar, which produces regular monitoring in this area. The report shows a steady increase in the number of children with defects.

Every year in England and Wales is born more kids with   congenital heart disease , Spina bifida, Down syndrome and other birth defects . Whereas previously they were recorded every 80th child is born, it is now more common than each 50th. It can be assumed that this increase is due to more accurate registration of cases, but some experts say that to some extent this trend is explained by objective factors.

The increase in the number of children birth defects   influenced by such factors as an increase in the age of mothers. For example, in London there is the biggest indicator of women who are mothers after 40 and 50, and the biggest indicator of children Down syndrome   - 34 for every 10 000 (in the south-western part of the country only 21 per 10 000).

Experts from Binocar believe that in 2009 in England and Wales were born at least 14 500 children with birth defects . The most common of these is congenital heart defect Which is fixed at five out of every thousand babies born. Approximately 6% of these children is unfortunately still die before the age of one year.

The second highest prevalence of Down syndrome should be. On the third - defects of the neural tube, including spina bifida (spina bifida), occurring at intervals one case per thousand births, and gastrohizis - a birth defect of the abdominal wall, associated with incomplete closure of normally formed umbilical cord.

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