The beliefs of mothers in southern Brazil regarding risk-factors associated with congenital abnormalities

We describes a study in which conventional wisdom about congenital malformations was investigated, the two main objectives being to list mothers' ideas by comparing six well-known causes of congenital abnormalities (ingestion of alcoholic beverages, smoking tobacco, drug use, marriage between r...

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Main Authors: Gilberto de Lima Garcias, Lavínia Schüler-Faccini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2004-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572004000200003