Reproductive attitudes of couples having a child with cystic fibrosis in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (Quebec, Canada)
| Autor: | Gilles Rault, Marc De Braekeleer, Gil Bellis, F Simard, Marcel Milot, C Allard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Cystic Fibrosis Sexual Behavior Genetic counseling Population Genetic Counseling Prenatal diagnosis Biology Choice Behavior Cystic fibrosis Pregnancy Prenatal Diagnosis Internal medicine Genetics medicine Humans Saguenay lac saint jean Risk factor Child education education.field_of_study Data Collection Incidence (epidemiology) Quebec medicine.disease Endocrinology Female Demography |
| Zdroj: | Annales de Génétique. 43:93-97 |
| ISSN: | 0003-3995 |
| Popis: | Cystic fibrosis (CF) has a high incidence (1/936 live births) and carrier rate (1/15 inhabitants) in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. One objective of a major enquiry among several subsets of individuals from this high-risk population for CF was to evaluate the reproductive behaviour of couples with a CF child attending the comprehensive CF clinic in Chicoutimi. The knowledge of the recurrence risk resulted in deciding against further progeny or in reducing the number of children. More reliable contraception methods after the birth of the CF child, but not prenatal diagnosis, were used. Although a minority of parents with a CF child would abort a CF foetus, they apparently started viewing pregnancy interruption for CF after prenatal diagnosis as an acceptable reproductive option. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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