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Prevalence of congenital anomalies in babies and associated maternal etiological factors at tertiary care hospital

Background The objective of this study was to know the local prevalence of congenital anomaly and study the maternal risk factors associated with it.

Methods Cross sectional descriptive study was carved out. All live babies were examined for presence of congenital anomalies and mother were looked for presence of socio-demographic factor.

Results In this study of 1 year 5767 live birth took place at tertiary care centre out of which 63 babies had congenital anomalies. Therefore, prevalence of congenital anomalies at tertiary care centre was 1.08%.

Conclusions The incidence of malformations were significantly higher in babies born to mothers over the age of 35 years and with parity 4 and above.