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Introduction: Today, congenital abnormality is a common cause of long term disability and mortality in children; and it is one of the most important parts of the medical problems
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of apparent major abnormality in the newborns who were born in Shahid Yahyanejad hospital in Babol [2001]
Materials and Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study at basis of 3756 hospital records in the newborn ward in Shahid Yahyanejad hospital in Babol [2001]. The data of abnormality status, type of abnormality, gestational age, maternal age, parity, background disease of mothers [diabetes mellitus and hypertension], weight and height of newborn have been collected from hospital charts. The data was analyzed using SPSS software and logistic regression model
Results: The findings showed that the prevalence of apparent abnormality was 4 per 1000. the rate of abnormality have a significant association with gestational age and parity [P=0.000]. But there is not a significant association with maternal age, sex of newborn, and background disease of mothers. The most common abnormalities were: skeletal, urogenital, CNS, head and neck
Conclusion: The findings indicated that the prevalence of apparent major abnormality is lower in compared with other reports from Iran and other countries. This can be a consequence differences in health status and detection methods or in defective data of underreport in the hospital records