Some startling facts are coming from the Texas Birth Defects Registry which has been crunching numbers from 6 years of data to try to see if there is a link between the very high rate of birth defects and environmental hazards such as refineries and landfills in Nueces County.
Not only are children born in the Corpus Christi area 17 percent more likely to have a severe birth defect, but they are also nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with any birth defect as those born in the rest of the state. More studies are planned to try to pinpoint the cause of this problem.
The study also found "... a higher than expected rate of neural tube defects, including anencephaly and spina bifida, born to South Texas Hispanic mothers."
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