Socioeconomic inequalities in outcome of pregnancy and neonatal mortality associated with congenital anomalies: population based study.

The article presents a study which examines the socioeconomic variations in the result of pregnancies affected with congenital anomalies with a poor prognosis. The study has audited all registered cases of nine selected congenital anomalies with poor prognostic results in Great Britain. It reveals that antenatal detection has made a wide socioeconomic inequalities in liveborn infants with an anomaly and subsequent neonatal mortality.