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The prevalence of 52 congenital minor anomalies/MCAs/was determined in 111 children with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus/IDDM/, and in 111 healthy matched control subjects. The average MCA per person was 1,60 in diabetic children and 0,86 in the controls/p < 0,001/The difference was exclusively due to the significantly higher proportion of subjects with 3 or more MCAs in the diabetic group/27,0 versus 9,9 per cent, p < 0.001/. Malformation type minor anomalies/“mild malformations”/minor dysplasias, deformations, and phenogenetic variants almost equally contributed to the higher prevalence of MCAs in the patients. No specific MCA characteristic of IDDM was found.
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Méhes, K., Soltész, G., Károlyi, G. et al. PREVALENCE OF MINOR CONGENITAL ANOMALIES IN DIABETIC CHILDREN. Pediatr Res 19, 1080 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198510000-00074
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