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Few-School-3869 t1_jd4nmiz wrote

Indian people are living in the midst of risk factors for birth defects, e.g., universality of marriage, high fertility, large number of unplanned pregnancies, poor coverage of antenatal care, poor maternal nutritional status, high consanguineous marriages rate, and high carrier rate for hemoglobinopathies. Lack of prenatal/antenatal care is a huge reason. 70 percent of birth defects are preventable through community genetic services!

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4B1T t1_jd4rnnd wrote

Great response, also pollutants.

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gnalon t1_jd94z78 wrote

Also it is the most populous country on Earth, so obviously for any type of person you can imagine, a lot of them will be from India.

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bearrryallen t1_jd5n7uw wrote

What does universality of marriage mean? Googling it says it's essentially marrying outside of your own culture - if I'm reading it right. Wouldn't that be the opposite of inbreeding? Which is what you don't want to happen?

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aqhgfhsypytnpaiazh t1_jd6qi18 wrote

If you read it as "universality of marriage" is the risk factor, a lack of it would be the risk in this case.

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