Temporal trends in diagnoses of congenital microcephaly, Texas Hospital Discharge Diagnoses, 2000-2015.
Dorothy Kim WallerJi Yun TarkA J AgopianJitesh ShewaleCecilia Ganduglia-CazabanAdrienne T HoytAngela E ScheuerlePeter H LangloisPublished in: Birth defects research (2019)
It remains uncertain whether the observed increases in microcephaly and other neonatal diagnoses are real or an artifact of the change in the number of fields. However, since it is unlikely that there would be a simultaneous increase in microcephaly and eight other neonatal diagnoses, it is likely that some or all of the temporal increases in neonatal diagnoses are artifactual.