BACKGROUND Nigeria continues to have high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality. This is partly associated with lack of adequate obstetric care, partly with high risks in pregnancy, including heavy work. We examined actionable risk factors and underlying determinants at community level in Bauchi and Cross River States of Nigeria, including several related to male responsibility in pregnancy...

Background: Nutritional adequacy is one of the factors that affect health pregnant women and fetuses. Objective to describe nutritional adolescent in Salatiga City.Methods: this study uses a mix method. The population was all teenage City. sample aged 12-16 years through total sampling technique. instruments used were food records 2x24 hours SQ-FFQ form last month for quantitative research, pen...

Introduction: Anaemia during pregnancy is an important factor to maternal mortality, morbidity and poor foetal outcomes. It remains one of the utmost unresolved public health problems in developing countries, including Ethiopia. This study aimed assess prevalence associated factors anaemia among pregnant women facilities Hossana Town, Southern Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional was condu...

OBJECTIVE To identify the long-term risk for low back pain among women with previous severe low back pain during pregnancy. METHODS In a previous prospective study, 79 pregnant women developed low back pain severe enough to require sick leave. Twelve years later a questionnaire was sent to 62 of these women and 84 controls who did not develop severe low back pain during pregnancy. The questio...

Background: Pregnancy along with a fibroid is a high risk pregnancy which may lead to complication with unequal gravity. Objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and obstetric complications of fibroids during pregnancy, this cross-sectional study was carried out in the Department of Gynaecology, Unit ‘C’, Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad. Method: Data of all patients who presented ...

To determine the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy, midstream urine samples from 505 pregnant women in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, were screened using urine culture and urinalysis. Urine cultures showed heavy growth (> or = 10(5) colony forming units/mL) in 4.8% (24/505) of the samples; 16/24 (66.7%) of these isolates were Escherichia coli. Microscopic examination had the h...

Why? Acrid smoke deposits are responsible for 511 000 of the 1.3 million deaths due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among women worldwide per year versus 173 000 of the total of 1.4 million deaths from COPD among men. Inefficient household energy practices may significantly affect the health of pregnant women such as pelvic organ prolapse during pregnancy due to heavy loads carr...

The following case has come to the attention of our service: a 32-year-old, G2P1001, with a history of one cesarean section, presented at 17–18 weeks' gestation with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), heavy bleeding and a placenta previa highly suspicious for an accreta on MRI. She received 2 units of packed red cells upon admission to another service and is now in stable condition...

In the first 18 months since mifepristone was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use with misoprostol for early medical abortion, approximately 80,000 women have been treated. One-hundred thirty-nine adverse events were reported to Danco Laboratories LLC and subsequently reported to the FDA. Thirteen patients required blood transfusions, 10 patients were treated with antibio...

INTRODUCTION In Western Africa, women continue performing heavy physical work that includes carrying loads on their heads for domestic and commercial tasks during pregnancy. Due to important anatomical changes such as a higher trunk mass and stretching of the abdominal muscles, the loads on the spine and lower extremities may increase during lifting/lowering tasks. Pregnant women may adapt to t...