STUDY OBJECTIVE To test associations and interactions between racial identification, neighborhood risk, and low birth weight disparities between infants born to African-American and white adolescent mothers. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study. Birth cases were geocoded and linked to census tract information from the 2010 US Census and the 2007-2011 American Community Survey. A "neighb...

BACKGROUND This study used data from recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to examine the impact of high parity on under-five and neonatal mortality. The analyses used various techniques to attempt eliminating selection issues, including stratification of analyses by mothers' completed fertility. METHODS We analyzed DHS datasets from 47 low- and middle-income countries. We only used dat...

mothers exposed to antiepileptic drugs (aeds) are at high risk to born babies with orofacial malformations such as cleft lips. about 9 percent of congenital abnormalities in babies of mothers with epilepsy relates to orofacial abnormalities. maintaining safe antiepileptic drugs for millions of mothers with epilepsy is very important. researches show that new aeds have less side effects than the...

the prevalence of primary infection with t. gondii in pregnant women and risk of congenital infection in their neonates in various parts of tehran are unknown. the prevalence rate of antibodies to t. gondii ranges from 24% in tehran to 62.7% in babol. this study describes the epidemiology of toxoplasma infection in pregnant women in tehran and risk factors of congenital toxoplasmosis in newborn...

background: breast variations play an important role in breastfeeding success. it seems that this issue has not gained enough attention. the present study was designed to measure the prevalence of breast variations among women of reproductive age in an iranian community. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a sample of 402 pregnant women who were referred to the only maternal h...