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Incidentally, as of 1985 Utah had the lowest incidence of DS in the country. |
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Okay. I do mean to be difficult.
The national stat is only a percentage of DS fetuses that were prenatally diagnosed. The state stat appears to be the percentage of all fetuses, including those that went undiagnosed until birth. Obviously all the undiagnosed ones were carried to term, so it's not really very valid to compare the two numbers. |
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I wonder if that has anything to do with Mormon women having their babies earlier. From what I understand DS babies are usually born to older women.
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Well, that's what I was thinking, too. But when I read more of the paper it said it was true across all maternal age groups. Weird, huh?
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Maybe it's just due to good, clean Mormon living.
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Younger women have more DS babies because they have more babies. But the chances of having a DS baby increase as the mother gets older.
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