Heba Jafar Sabbagh, Mona Talal AlSharif, Fatma Dawood Abdulhameed, Aziza Johar Aljohar, Reema Mahdi Alhussain, Sultan Musaad Alghamdi, Najla Sulaiman Alrejaye, Latifa Yousef AlGudaibi, Bahaudbdin Ibraheem Sallout, Badi Shoaib Albaqawi, Eman Abdulbaset Alnamnakani, Lougin Khalid Brekeit, Osama Adel Basri, Manal Ibrahim Almalik, Norah Suliman Al Soqih, Ali Bakr Alshaikh, Abdullah Jameel Aburiziza, Faisal Ali Al Qahtani, Bushra Musaad Alghamdi, Asalah Khalid Alraddadi, Hadeel Hamza Khaja, Rana Abdullah Alamoudi
OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic presents an opportunity to study stress's effect on the development of non-syndromic orofacial clefts (NSOFCs). This study was aimed at assessing maternal stress exposure during the pregestational to first trimester pregnancy periods and the development of NSOFCs during a year of the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Cohort study of infants with NSOFCs and controls matched based on recruitment site and age. SETTING: Government hospitals in Saudi Arabia between November 2020 and November 2021...
January 18, 2024: Cleft Palate-craniofacial Journal