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April is Cesarean Awareness Month

Posted on Friday, April 19, 2024 08:47 AM

BORN data fuels continuous iteration and improvement within learning health systems. Check out the research below that uses BORN data to explore issues surrounding cesarean...

Maternal Obesity Associated with Increased Risk of Stillbirth

Posted on Friday, March 08, 2024 02:48 PM

Results from a recent study using BORN data showed that maternal obesity was associated with an increased risk of stillbirth, particularly at term. 

Researchers at Dalhousie...

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Research Highlights Health Disparities Related to Congenital Heart Disease and Socioeconomic Status

Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 01:56 PM

What is Congenital Heart Disease?

Congenital heart disease (CHD) represents the most prevalent form of congenital anomaly in the world, implicated in over 180,000 infant...

COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage and Pregnant Individuals in Ontario

Posted on Friday, February 10, 2023 01:10 PM

Data from the BORN Information System was recently used to explore temporal trends and determinants of COVID-19 vaccine coverage and series initiation during pregnancy in...

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Study finds that failed cfDNA screens are associated with a higher chance of chromosome differences

Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 05:16 PM

While cell-free DNA screening (also known as Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing) performs very well for the detection of trisomies 21/18/13, it can at times fail to yield a result.