Background. <\/b>In Estonia children with cleft lip and\/or palate are treated in two centres: University of Tartu and North Estonia Medical Centre. On average there is one baby with cleft per 700 full-term newborn.
\nAim. <\/b>To study epidemiological factors causing development of cleft lip and palate and their occurrence regularities.
\nMaterial. <\/b>This study included 583 cleft lip and palate patients (333 male and 250 female), and the information for statistical analyses was gathered in Tartu University Hospital.
\nResults. <\/b>In the period 1910-2000 583 cleft patients were born and registered in Tartu University Hospital. Nineteen per cent of the patients had a cleft lip, 39 per cent of the patients had a cleft palate, and 42% of the patients had a cleft lip and palate. In unilateral CLP\u00a0 and CL cases, the left side was affected 2.2 times as frequently as the right side. The boys had a cleft lip and palate nearly 2.1 times more often than the girls. Cleft palate was more common for the girls (60%) then for the boys (40%). Of children 30% had multiple malformations and 5.5% of the cleft patients were born prematurely. The ratio for different cleft types was CL:CLP:CP \u2013 1:2:2. Of the cleft patients 2.6% had an older child with a cleft in the family. Of the mothers with cleft children 37% reported emotional stress during the first trimester, 20% had been doing physically hard work and 15% had used medications during the first trimester.
\nConclusions. <\/b>The main finding of the study was high CP rate (CL:CLP:CP \u2013 1:2:2), which is similar to that found in Finland and Sweden, the reasons for which need further research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Background. In Estonia children with cleft lip and\/or palate are treated in two centres: University of Tartu and North Estonia Medical Centre. On average there is one baby with cleft per 700 full-term newborn. Aim. To study epidemiological factors causing development of cleft lip and palate and their occurrence regularities. Material. This study included 583 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1540],"class_list":["post-5903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-research","authors-katrin-veere-en","authors-mare-saag-en","authors-marianne-soots-en","authors-triin-jagomagi-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5904,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}