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Birth Defects - Prevalence of Cleft Palate without Cleft Lip per 10,000 Live Births

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Prevalence of Cleft Palate without Cleft Lip by County, New Mexico, 2015-2019

Why Is This Important?

Birth defects pose a significant public health problem. One in 33 babies is born with a structural birth defect in the United States. Birth defects cause one in five deaths among infants less than a year old and lead to $2.6 billion per year in hospital costs alone in the U.S. Children with cleft palates are at high risk for hearing problems due to ear infections. Surgical correction is begun as soon as possible.

Definition

A cleft palate occurs when the palate fails to fuse properly, which forms a grooved depression or fissure in the roof of the mouth. A cleft lip occurs when the fetal components of the lip fail to fuse or join, which forms a groove or fissure in the lip. Prevalence of cleft palate without cleft lip is the number of live-born infants with cleft palate without cleft lip per 10,000 live-born infants. (Live-born infants are the infants born with any evidence of life.) New Mexico live-born infants with cleft palate who do not have a cleft lip, 2015-2019.

Data Sources

  • Birth Defects Prevention and Surveillance System (BDPASS), New Mexico Department of Health.
  • Birth Certificate Data, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics (BVRHS), Epidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health.
    (https://www.nmhealth.org/about/erd/bvrhs/vrp/)

How the Measure is Calculated

Numerator:Number of live-born infants with cleft palate who do not have a cleft lip.
Denominator:Number of live-born infants.

How Do We Compare With the U.S.?

The national prevalence of cleft lip with or without cleft palate among births from 2004-2006 is 6.35 per 10,000 births. These data come from 14 birth defects surveillance programs: Arkansas, Arizona, California [8-county Central Valley], Colorado, Georgia [5-county metropolitan Atlanta], Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Utah. For more information, please see: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/features/birthdefects-keyfindings.html Due to variability in the methods used by state birth defects surveillance systems and differences in populations and risk factors, state prevalence estimates may not be directly comparable with national estimates or those of other states.

Other Objectives

CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking, Nationally Consistent Data and Measures (EPHT NCDM)

Indicator Data Last Updated On 03/11/2022, Published on 05/03/2022
Environmental Health Epidemiology Bureau, Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, Epidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health, 1190 S. Saint Francis Drive, Suite 1300, Santa Fe, NM 87505, Srikanth Paladugu, Bureau Chief, Srikanth.Paladugu@doh.nm.gov, or Stephanie Moraga-McHaley, Environmental Epidemiologist Supervisor, Stephanie.Moraga-Mc@doh.nm.gov