background: toxoplasma gondii is one of the most prevalent parasites of human and warm- blooded animals. toxoplasmosis is important especially in two groups: pregnant women and immunocompromised patients. if women acquire the primary infection during the pregnancy, it would be life threatening or re-mains severe disorders for the fetus. this study was performed to evaluate the seroprevalence of...

background: vitamin c levels are low in pregnancy. the purpose of this study was to determine serum vitamins c levels among pregnant women attending antenatal care at a general hospital in dawakin kudu, kano, and this can help further research to determine the place of vitamin c supplementation in pregnancy. methods: this was a prospective study of 400 pregnant women who presented for antenatal...

conclusions: nearly half of the women presenting with trauma had experienced spousal feud or domestic violence; therefore, it is necessary to recognize spousal abuse and provide adequate support to traumatized pregnant women. background: trauma occurs in 7% of pregnancies and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the mother and fetus. objectives: the present study was conducted in kash...

I t is well established that folate requirements increase during pregnancy and that supplementing 0.4 mg folic acid/ day to the general pregnant population is beneficial in terms of reducing the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs). Offspring of women with pregestational diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of congenital anomalies, including NTDs (1). In animal models, folic acid supplementat...

BACKGROUND Pregnant women with mild gestational hyperglycemia present high risk for hypertension, obesity and hyperglycemia, and appeared to reproduce the model of metabolic syndrome in pregnancy, with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance. Our clinical studies showed that mild gestational hyperglycemia or gestational diabetes are related to similar adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. Hy...

The clinical significance and management of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) differs according to different groups of patients. ASB requires antibiotic treatment in pregnant women, children aged 5-6 years and prior to invasive genitourinary procedures. However, there is a consensus that ASB in the elderly, healthy school girls and young women, diabetic women and patients with indwelling catheters...

The outlook for the fetus and infant of the diabetic mother has changed remarkably over the past 70 years. Following the discovery of insulin in 1922, young diabetic women who were previously practically infertile, were introduced to the option of conceiving and bearing children. Pregnancy-related maternal mortality, which had previously been extremely high in this group of patients, fell drama...

OBJECTIVE A cross-sectional institutional-based study was undertaken to know the prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) among Indian pregnant women. SUBJECTS AND METHODS 325 pregnant women were screened for evidence of diabetes who were previously not known to be diabetic. They underwent 75 g, 2 hour, oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Chi-square test was done for statistically as...

Materials and methods The weight of fetus, placenta and umbilical cord were measured in 30 (thirty) normal pregnant women and in 17 (seventeen) controlled gestational diabetic pregnant women met in HUSM (University Hospital of Santa Maria). The measurements of weight of fetus were made immediately after the delivery and the macroscopy exam of placenta and umbilical cord were made 24 (twenty fou...