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Key Findings of Health Risk Behaviors among Young Adults with Spina Bifida in Arkansas.
Health Risk Behaviors Among Young Adults with Spina Bifida
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology; 2012 Nov;54(11):1057-64 Soe MM, Swanson ME, Bolen JC, Thibadeau JK, Johnson N
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* These CDC scientific articles are listed in order of date published, from 2005 to present.

Testing the Feasibility of a National Spina Bifida Patient Registry Birth Defects Research (Part A)
Clinical and Molecular Teratology; November 2, 2012 (Epub ahead of print) Thibadeau JK, Ward EA, Soe MM, Liu T, Swanson M, Sawin KJ, Freeman KA, Castillo H, Rauen K, Schechter MS.
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Health Risk Behaviors Among Young Adults with Spina Bifida
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology; 2012 Nov;54(11):1057-64 Soe MM, Swanson ME, Bolen JC, Thibadeau JK, Johnson N
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Care Coordination in the Spina Bifida Clinic Setting
Current Practice and Future Directions Journal of Pediatric Healthcare; 2012 Jan-Feb;26(1): 16-26.
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Spina Bifida: Health and Development Across the Life Course
Edited by Swanson ME, Dandler AD Pediatric Clinics of North America, August 2010, Volume 57
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Prevalence of Spina Bifida Among Children and Adolescents in 10 Regions in the United States
Pediatrics; July 12, 2010, (Epub ahead of print);
Shin M, Besser LM, Siffel C, Kucik JE, Shaw GM, Lu C, Correa A, and the Congenital Anomaly Multistate Prevalence and Survival Collaborative.
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Hospitalization for Urinary Tract Infections and the Quality of Preventive Health Care Received by People with Spina Bifida
Disability and Health Journal; 2009
Armour B., Ouyang L., Thibadeau J., Grosse S., Campbell V., Joseph D.
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Anencephaly and Spina Bifida among Hispanics: Maternal, Sociodemographic, and Acculturation Factors in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study
Birth Defects Research (Part A); Clinical and Molecular Teratology; 2009 July; 85(7):637-46
Canfield MA, Ramadhani TA, Shaw GM, Carmichael SL, Walker DK, Mosley BS, Royle MH, Olney RS.
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Public Health Projects for Preventing the Recurrence of Neural Tube Defects in the United States
Birth Defects Research (Part A); Clinical and Molecular Teratology; 2009; 85(11):935-8
Collins JS, et al.
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Trends in the Postfortification Prevalence of Spina Bifida and Anencephaly in the United States
Birth Defects Research (Part A); Clinical and Molecular Teratology; 2008; 82:527-532
Boulet SL, Yang QH, Mai C, Kirby RS, Collins JS, Robbins JM, Meyer R, Canfield MA, Mulinare J.
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Health Care Expenditures of Children and Adults with Spina Bifida in a Privately Insured U.S. Population
Birth Defects Research (Part A); Clinical and Molecular Teratology; 2007 Jul; 79(7):552-8
Ouyang L, Grosse SD, Armour BS, Waitzman NJ
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National Estimates and Race/Ethnic-Specific Variation of Selected Birth Defects in the United States, 1999-2001
Birth Defects Research (Part A); Clinical and Molecular Teratology; 2006 July; 76: 747-756
Canfield MA, Honein MA, Yuskiv N, Xing J, Mai CT, et al.
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Decline in the Prevalence of Spina Bifida and Anencephaly by Race/Ethnicity: 1995-2002
Pediatrics; 2005 September; 116:580-6
Williams LJ, Rasmussen SA, Flores A, Kirby RS, Edmonds LD
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Health State Preference Scores of Children with Spina Bifida and their Caregivers
Quality of Life Research; 2005 May; 14(4):1087-98
Tilford JM, Grosse SD, Robbins JM, Pyne JM, Cleves MA, Hobbs CA.
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A Randomized Trial of Prenatal versus Postnatal Repair of Myelomeningocele
The New England Journal of Medicine; 2011 March 17; 364:993-1004 Adzick NS, et al
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Prevention of Neural-Tube Defects with Folic Acid in China. China-U.S. Collaborative Project for Neural Tube Defect Prevention
New England Journal of Medicine; November 1999; 11; 341(20):1485-90
Berry RJ, et al.
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Recommendations for use of Folic Acid to Reduce Number of Spina Bifida Cases and Other Neural Tube Defects
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 1992; 41(RR-14):1-7
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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