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Mary K. Ethen
Researcher at Texas Department of State Health Services
Publications - 39
Citations - 1747
Mary K. Ethen is an academic researcher from Texas Department of State Health Services. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 35 publications receiving 1369 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary K. Ethen include Massachusetts Department of Public Health & Baylor College of Medicine.
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Updated estimates of neural tube defects prevented by mandatory folic Acid fortification - United States, 1995-2011.
Williams J,Cara T. Mai,Joe Mulinare,Jennifer Isenburg,Flood Tj,Mary K. Ethen,Frohnert B,Russell S. Kirby +7 more
TL;DR: There remain opportunities for prevention among women with lower folic acid intakes, especially among Hispanic women, to further reduce the prevalence of NTDs in the United States.
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Alcohol consumption by women before and during pregnancy
Mary K. Ethen,Tunu A. Ramadhani,Angela E. Scheuerle,Mark A. Canfield,Diego F. Wyszynski,Charlotte M. Druschel,Paul A. Romitti +6 more
TL;DR: It is revealed that drinking during pregnancy is fairly common, three times the levels reported in surveys that ask only about drinking during the month before the survey, and women who binge drink before pregnancy are at particular risk for drinking after becoming pregnant.
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Prenatal Diagnosis, Birth Location, Surgical Center, and Neonatal Mortality in Infants With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Shaine A. Morris,Mary K. Ethen,Daniel J. Penny,Mark A. Canfield,Charles G. Minard,David E Fixler,Wendy N. Nembhard +6 more
TL;DR: Efforts to improve prenatal diagnosis of HLHS and subsequent delivery near a large volume CSC may significantly improve neonatal HLHS survival.
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Survival of children with trisomy 13 and trisomy 18: A multi-state population-based study.
Robert E. Meyer,Gang Liu,Suzanne M. Gilboa,Mary K. Ethen,Arthur S. Aylsworth,Cynthia M. Powell,Timothy J. Flood,Cara T. Mai,Ying Wang,Mark A. Canfield +9 more
TL;DR: This study found survival among children with T13 and T18 to be somewhat higher than those previously reported in the literature, consistent with recent studies reporting improved survival following more aggressive medical intervention for these children.
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Mortality in First 5 Years in Infants With Functional Single Ventricle Born in Texas, 1996 to 2003
TL;DR: A population-based study demonstrates significant improvement in overall 5-year survival, particularly in cases of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and single ventricle, and identifies racial/ethnic and regional differences in outcome.