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Dietary vitamin A intake below the recommended daily intake during pregnancy and the risk of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the offspring †‡§

  1. Leonardus W. J. E. Beurskens1,‖,
  2. Lieske H. Schrijver2,
  3. Dick Tibboel1,
  4. Mark F. Wildhagen2,3,
  5. Maarten F. C. M. Knapen2,
  6. Jan Lindemans4,
  7. Jeanne de Vries6,
  8. Régine P. M. Steegers-Theunissen2,5,*

Article first published online: 2 JAN 2013

DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23093

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Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volume 97, Issue 1, pages 60–66, January 2013

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Beurskens, L. W. J. E., Schrijver, L. H., Tibboel, D., Wildhagen, M. F., Knapen, M. F. C. M., Lindemans, J., de Vries, J. and Steegers-Theunissen, R. P. M. (2013), Dietary vitamin A intake below the recommended daily intake during pregnancy and the risk of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the offspring . Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 97: 60–66. doi: 10.1002/bdra.23093

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Pediatric Surgery, Sophia Children's Hospital

  2. 2

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  3. 3

    Department of Urology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  4. 4

    Department of Clinical Chemistry, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  5. 5

    Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  6. 6

    Department of Nutrition, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

  1. ‖

    Department of General Practice, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

*Erasmus Medical Centre – University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Building Ee Room 22-71a, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  1. †

    Disclosure of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

  2. ‡

    Contribution to authorship: L.W.J.E. Beurskens: inclusion of patients, data input and analysis, drafting manuscript; L.H. Schrijver: data input and analysis, drafting manuscript; D. Tibboel: primary researcher, inclusion of patients, manuscript revision; M.F. Wildhagen: database management and data extraction; M.F.C. Knapen: inclusion of patients, manuscript revision; J. Lindemans: sample analysis, manuscript revision; J. de Vries: design questionnaires and data analysis, manuscript revision; R.P.M. Steegers-Theunissen, primary researcher, data analysis, manuscript revisions.

  3. §

    Details of ethics approval: Permission to conduct the study was granted by the Central Committee of Research in Human in The Hague, The Netherlands, and by the Medical Ethical Committee of Erasmus University Rotterdam (MEC-2006-158; July 20, 2006).

  4. Supported by a grant from the Mother and Child Center of the Erasmus Medical Centre – Sophia's Children's Hospital.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 JAN 2013
  2. Article first published online: 2 JAN 2013
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 25 SEP 2012
  4. Manuscript Revised: 17 SEP 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 11 MAY 2012

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