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EUROCAT Overview

 

• A European network of population-based registries for the epidemiologic surveillance of congenital anomalies.
   

• Started in 1979.
   

• More than 1.5 million births surveyed per year in Europe. 
   

• 43 registries in 20 countries.
   

• 29% of European birth population covered.
   

• High quality multiple source registries, ascertaining terminations of pregnancy as well as births.
   

• WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiological Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies (www.who.int/genomics).