OBJECTIVE To determine relationships between pre-pregnancy risk factors at first antenatal visit booking and pregnancy outcomes. STUDY DESIGN This was a multicenter, cross-sectional study involving women admitted for singleton delivery from July 1 until October 31 (3 months), 2013, at nine major maternity clinics in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. All women were checked for hereditary...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the effects of antenatal exposure to iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and common mental disorders (CMD) on cognitive development of 6 months old infants in a developing country. METHODS A prospective population-based study in a rural province in Vietnam, which enrolled pregnant women at 12-20 weeks gestation and followed them up with their infants u...

CONTEXT Perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS) is a common cause of hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Risk factors for this condition have not been clearly defined. OBJECTIVE To determine maternal and infant characteristics associated with PAS. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Case-control study nested within the cohort of all 199,176 infants born from 1997 through 2002 in the Kaiser Permanente Med...

The following case report presents interest from the following view-points. First, inversion of the puerperal uterus is a rare occurrence; second, the case was first seen by the writer in what might be termed a subacute stage; third, the method of treatment differed from the procedures usually recommended as being useful in this condition. That this accident is rare is shown by the fact that Fi...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to determine the maternal risk factors associated with “Low Birth Weight Babies”. STUDY DESIGN: Case control study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics Unit – II Sheikh Zaid Women Hospital & CMC Larkana from 1st December 2008 till 30th November 2009. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 300 women were included in study,150 ...

BACKGROUND There are several risk factors for hypertensive syndromes in pregnancy (HSP), and these can be related to regional and ethnic factors. Studies on this issue are scarce in the State of Goiás. OBJECTIVE To investigate maternal risk factors for HSP. METHODS Case-control study based on the analysis of medical records of parturients from the Maternity Service of Hospital das Clínicas ...

African forest elephants face severe threats from illegal killing for ivory and bushmeat and habitat conversion. Due to their cryptic nature and inaccessible range, little information on the biology of this species has been collected despite its iconic status. Compiling individual based monitoring data collected over 20 years from the Dzanga Bai population in Central African Republic, we summar...

OBJECTIVE To identify the feeding practices of children aged 6 to 12 months of age and associated maternal factors. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study analyzing data from the 2004 Breastfeeding and the Municipalities Project, which was implemented in 136 municipalities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with 24,448 children. The foods these children ate were profiled according to the nu...

background : desirable sexual function has an important role in strengthening the marital life of the couples. sexual disorders can cause mental pressure and affect quality of life and marital relationship. methods : this was a descriptive analytical study in one group and one phase covering multivariables. the study sample included 384 women after delivery period that had the following inclusi...

Recent publications indicate that the prevalence of perinatal mortality has increased in some dairy industries and an increased proportion of this loss is not associated with the traditional risk factors for perinatal mortality. The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of perinatal mortality (calf death within 24 h of calving) in Irish dairy herds and to determine the curre...