John Ivey Harris

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | SBTS · School of Theology

Infants with kidney agenesis or dysgenesis, infants with cystic kidneys, and infants with horse-shoe kidneys were studied, based on data from three large and population-based congenital malformation registers: a total of 2666 infants among 5.83 million births. There is a strong variability between programs of the rates of registered unilateral kidn...

The paper describes associated malformations in infants born with neural tube defects (N = 3,809) from three large malformation registers and in fetuses aborted because of a diagnosed neural tube defect (N = 748) from two of the registers. In infants, upper spina bifida and encephalocele are more often associated with non-neural malformations than...

The epidemiology of preaxial limb malformations was studied in an effort to find similarities and differences between different types that could help to define suitable groups of malformations for etiologic studies. Material from three large congenital malformation registers was used, with a total of 1646 infants with such malformations among over...

We studied the epidemiology of diaphragmatic hernia based on 1439 cases collected from a French, a Swedish, and a California birth defect registry. This is the largest epidemiological material available up to now. Isolated diaphragmatic hernia existed in 875 infants, diaphragmatic hernia with associated malformations in 486, and with chromosome ano...

Anophthalmia and microphthalmia are serious eye malformations which recently have been associated with exposure to Benomyl. Data on these malformations are scarce in the literature and reported prevalences at birth vary strongly. Data from three large registers of congenital malformations were analysed and comprised 849 malformed infants based on c...

The literature indicates that exposure to electro-magnetic fields (EMF) may result in an increased incidence of cancer and spontaneous abortion. The aim of the present study was to determine whether living closer to high voltage power lines (HVPL) increased the risk of congenital anomalies. We studied residential exposure in any municipality in the...

A study has been made on certain epidemiological characteristics of infants with alimentary tract atresia: esophageal atresia, small and large gut atresia, and anal atresia. Data were collected from three malformation registries and represent a material of more than 4.5 million births. A total of 3,550 infants with alimentary atresia were identifie...