Publications by authors named "Merilyn M Riley"
Objective: To describe the prevalence of neural tube defects (NTDs) in Victoria, and to evaluate women's knowledge and awareness of the importance of folate after the introduction of voluntary food fortification.
Design And Setting: Descriptive study, set in Victoria, Australia, based on routinely collected data from the Victorian Birth Defects Register (VBDR) for 1998-2006, and responses by women aged 18-50 years to five questions relating to folate on the 2005 and 2006 Victorian Population Health Surveys (2314 and 2488 women, respectively).
Main Outcome Measures: Prevalence of NTDs, and extent of women's knowledge of the importance of folate in NTD prevention, comparing the period before and since voluntary food fortification and a folate awareness campaign.
An epidemiologic study of orofacial clefts with other birth defects in Victoria, Australia.
Cleft Palate Craniofac J
September 2006
Objective: To describe the epidemiological characteristics of oral clefts occurring with other birth defects in Victoria, Australia.
Methods: Information on infants and fetuses reported to the Victorian Birth Defects Register from 1983 to 2000 was collected. Birth defects were classified as Pierre Robin Sequence, chromosomal anomaly, nonchromosomal syndrome, single-system defect, or multiple-system defect.
Objectives: To report the epidemiological characteristics of isolated cleft lip, cleft palate or both (CL +/- P and CP) using population-based data in Victoria, Australia.
Design: Descriptive study of a cohort of children born between 1983 and 2000 notified to the Victorian Birth Defects Register by multiple ascertainment sources.
Participants: Data were collected on patients identified with CL +/- P and CP without associated defects classified as live births, stillbirths, neonatal deaths, and terminated pregnancies < 20 weeks' gestation following prenatal identification.