Surveillance and Case Control Study of Stillbirth and Birth Defects (SUCCSSBD)
Funds modernizing birth-defects surveillance, tracking stillbirths, and a case-control study into risk factors for both.
Birth defects touch about three in every hundred US births and are a leading cause of infant death and lifelong illness, yet the cause of two out of three birth defects is still unknown. Stillbirth, a pregnancy loss after 20 weeks, is common too — more than 20,000 happen in the US every year, and CDC calls it an under-evaluated public health issue.
This notice funds three components. Component A …
Modernizing birth-defects surveillance through electronic case reporting, building stillbirth surveillance capacity, and running a case-control study of risk factors for birth defects and stillbirths in the US, across three separately fundable components.
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