To analyze the influence of consanguinity and maternal education on stillbirth and infant death for children born in Norway between 1967 and 1993, the authors studied 7,274 children of ethnic Pakistani origin and 1,431,055 children of Norwegian ethnic origin. Of these children, 31.0% of the Pakistani children and 0.1% of the Norwegian children had parents who were first cousins. Consanguinity i...

In 1987 Young and Simpson reported a child with hypothyroidism, congenital heart disease, severe mental retardation, and striking facial dysmorphism. Two subsequent reports have described patients sharing some of the features of their case, although in both there were enough discordant features to make it uncertain that the same entity was being described. Here we present a female infant with v...

The aim of the study was to investigate the association between asthma, allergic rhinitis, and eczema in Qatari schoolchildren with allergic conditions in their parents. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 3500 Qatari schoolchildren aged 6-14 years in period: February, 2003-February, 2004. A questionnaire was used to collect the clinical history of asthma and allergic rhinitis in their ...

in the rare hereditary bone disorder of osteopetrosis, reduced bone resorption function leads to both the development of densely sclerotic fragile bones and progressive obliteration of the marrow spaces and cranial foramina. marrow obliteration, typically associated with extramedullary hemopoiesis and hepatosplenomegaly, results in anemia and thrombocytopenia and nerve entrapment accounts for p...

The material of this study consists 3701 newborns in the neonatology section, Maternity Hassan II Hospital, Agadir, Morocco from April 2016 to 2018. For each newborn, several variables were recorded (birth weight, sex, consanguinity, gestational age, economic and social situation parents, etc.). They types birth defects have been classified according International Classification Diseases (ICD-1...

This study was conducted on 3212 Saudi families to investigate the prevalence of consanguineous marriages. The families were interviewed and the information on the relationship between the husband and wife was obtained. The overall rate of consanguinity shows that 57.7% of the families screened were consanguineous. The most frequent were first cousin marriages (28.4%) followed by distant relati...