Background: To determine the relationship between prepregnancy obesity and increasing risk of cesarean section (CS). Materials and Methods: The population studied included 887 women with live births after 37 weeks gestation in Shahid Sedoughi hospital between April 1, 2008, and April 1, 2009. Women who were obese before pregnancy were comparing with nonobese women with regard to mode of deliver...

Objective: To evaluate the awareness of need for folic acid supplementation and also actual intake during periconceptional period to prevent neural tube defects.Methods: The study involved a questionnaire survey conducted among 100 women attended antenatal visit in Department Obstetrics Gynecology, Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka. data were collected over March 2022 December 2022...