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Down syndrome pregnancy testing came back as abnormal, what does this mean?

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Depends: There are both screening tests and confirmatory tests. Screening tests ale less invasive but less specific.They are designed to take a thousand pregnant women and narrow down that number to 100 that need the more specific/invasive/costly test. Depending on which test you had, the results could mean several things. Call your doc.

Answered 5/11/2014

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