Sexually Transmitted Disease, Urinary Tract Infections May Be Bad Combination For Birth Defect

Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 23:28 in Health & Medicine

Women who reported having both a sexually transmitted disease and urinary tract infection just before or during early pregnancy were four times more likely to have babies with gastroschisis -- a severe birth defect in which infants are born with their intestines and other internal organs outside the abdomen.

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