INTRODUCTION Anemia, particularly Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA), is the most common hematological disorder during pregnancy with considerable complications in both mothers and fetuses. The estimation of anemia prevalence is an important step for health policy makers. Despite being considered a hot topic in epidemiological studies in Iran for the last twenty years, lack of a comprehensive overvie...

abstractbackground: macrosomia is a term applied to newborns with a birth weight of 4000 gr or above. perinatal mortality and morbidity is increased in fetal macrosomia. clavicular fracture, injury to brachial plexus, and hypoglycemia are important side effects. mother’s age, body mass index of mother, weight gain in pregnancy, mother’s height, diabetes, history of macrocosmic delivery, gestati...

Background: purpose of this study was to determine prevalence maternal and social risk factors low birth weight. The is weight.Methods: cross-sectional comparative carried out by reviewing medical records newborn delivered for one year in 250 newborn. Birth weight categorized into two as (birth <2500 grams), considered cases, normal ≥2500 controls or the reference weight.Results: In our moth...

erectile dysfunction (ed) is an important impediment to quality of life. diabetes mellitus is one of the most common causes of ed. however, it has been one of the most neglected complications of diabetes mellitus. our objective was to study the prevalence of ed and its risk factors in iranian diabetic men. during 2002-2004, 700 diabetic men aged 20-69 years were interviewed to report on their e...

objective: burden of diabetes is increasing worldwide. national statistics on prevalence of diabetes in afghanistan are insufficient. thus, this study identified the prevalence of diabetes and key risk factors in kabul, afghanistan. materials and methods: totally 1172 records were cleaned for analysis of whom 599 (51.1%) were females and 573 (48.9%) were males with a mean age of 38.6±12.2 years...

background: traumatic dental injury (tdi) in children and adolescents has become one of the most serious dental public health problems. despite such a high prevalence of dental trauma, very less attention has been paid to tdi, its etiology, and prevention. objectives: to determine the prevalence of anterior tooth traumatic dental injuries in 12-15-year-old school children of panchkula district,...

To assess risk factors for anemia in late pregnancy, we studied healthy pregnant women with a singleton uncomplicated pregnancy of > or = 32 weeks attending the prenatal clinic in the Provincial Hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Between June 1996 and December 1998, 4,608 pregnant women had a blood sample collected for hemoglobin (Hb) measurement, malaria smear, and testing for human immunodeficiency v...

Background: Anemia during pregnancy is a significant public health concern. Sri Lankan maternal healthcare system adopted free provision of iron and folic acid supplementation to all its pregnant women since several decades, mitigate the high prevalence anemia. Despite dedicated national services, anemia remains at moderate level significance for many years. Objective: This study assessed knowl...

conclusions in this study, the prevalence of hcv was 0.2%, which is lower than the mean prevalence in iran (1%). prevalence of hcv had a significant relationship with iv-drug abuse. results the mean age of the participants was 39.7 ± 14.4. among them, 52.2% were female and 29.9% had university degrees. prevalence of hcv-ab+ was about 0.2% with elisa, and 0.14% of entire group were confirmed by ...

background: there were about of 124 to 283 million cases of malaria with 367,000 to 755,000 deaths annually. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of malaria cases and associated risk factors among attendants at chichu and wonago health centers, south ethiopia. methods: in this health institution based cross sectional study, 324 subjects, attendants from outpatient department who came for a...