BACKGROUND Early antenatal care (ANC) initiation is a doorway to early detection and management of potential complications associated with pregnancy. Although the literature reports various factors associated with ANC initiation such as parity and age, pregnancy intentions is yet to be recognized as a possible predictor of timing of ANC initiation. METHODS Data originate from a cross-sectiona...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) patterns during pregnancy have not been explored in depth and most previous studies lack assessment of variables such as type, frequency, duration and intensity of activity. OBJECTIVES This study had two goals: 1) to analyze PA patterns during pregnancy according to weekly time spent on different types of activity; and 2) to determine women's perception about...

Methods Retrospective analysis of examination of 217 newborn of the risk group. ( In Russian Federation all children under 35 weeks of gestation age or weighting below 2000 gr lie in the group of risk for ROP). Due to the development of Respiratory Distress Syndrome all children needed respiratory therapy on the first week of living. The patients were divided into 3 groups according to the kind...

BACKGROUND Even though mental disorders represent a major public health problem for women and respective children, there remains a lack of epidemiological longitudinal studies to assess the psychological status of women throughout pregnancy and later in life. This epidemiological cohort study assessed the relationship between mental disorders of 409 Brazilian women in pregnancy and 5-8 years af...

Background: Femur is a long bone that measures gestational age and contributes to human height weight, but can also be affected by growth retardation or skeletal abnormalities. Objective: To compare the effect of femur length on fetus using ultrasonography. Methods: The research was four-month crossectional study carried out in private hospital Tehsil Kharian, District Gujrat, Pakistan. Data ob...

To examine effects of mother's anxiety and depression and associated risk factors during early pregnancy on fetal growth and activity. Repeated measures of mother's anxiety (State-Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S)) and depression (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)) and related socio demographics and substance consumption were obtained at the 1st and 2nd pregnancy trimesters, and fetus' (N = ...

OBJECTIVE The epiphyses ossification centers appear late in gestation, when traditional biometric measurements are the least accurate, and they can be useful in determining third trimesters gestational age. To evaluate fetal distal femoral epiphysis (DFE) size in various ages of gestation and establish a reference chart for Iranian population. MATERIALS & METHODS DFE diameter was measured in ...

abstract striped rice stem borer, chilo suppressalis walker (lepidoptera: pyralidae) is a major pest of rice in northern iran. regarding to the importance of population dynamics studies in pest management programs, the population fluctuations of c. suppressalis was studied in central part of mazandaran province (rice research centre of mazandaran) during 2005-2006. the male and female moths wer...