The WHO estimates that 41% of women and 27% of children suffer from anemia due to iron deficiency. The consequences of iron deficiency anemia include suboptimal mental and motor development in young children, increased risk of maternal mortality, and decreased economic productivity of adults. Recent research also provides evidence that maternal iron deficiency in pregnancy increases neonatal mo...

Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is related to bleeding experienced and has a relationship with anemia during pregnancy. WHO (2016) claimed, the prevalence of pregnant women who experience was 40.1%. RIKESDAS (2018) proportion in Indonesia ware 48.9%. During impregnation if cannot be treated until end pregnancy, it will have an impact on postpartum. The problem postpartum not as widely studied pre...

INTRODUCTION Postpartum depression (PPD) is one of the major psychological disorders worldwide that affects both mother and child. The aim of this study was to correlate the risk of PPD with obstetric and demographic variables in Saudi females. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were collected by interviewing females 8-12 weeks postpartum. PPD symptoms were defined as present when subjects had an Edi...

We report the patterns of variability in transferrin structure in pregnancy, iron deficiency anemia, women using oral contraceptives, nonanaemic rheumatoid arthritis, iron deficient rheumatoid arthritis and anemia of the chronic diseases. Changes in microheterogeneity were assessed by crossed immuno isoelectric focusing of serum transferrin. Intra-individual variation in the control group was m...

adolescents and young adults can have negative effects on their cognitive performance and growth. If pregnancy occurs during adolescence, anemia can not only increase maternal morbidity and mortality, but increase the incidence of poor birth outcomes in the infant (e.g., low birth weight, and prematurity) and also negatively impact infant iron status. Furthermore, through its effects on cogniti...

Background: Anemia in pregnancy has detrimental effects on maternal and child health and prevalence of anemia during pregnancy is alarmingly high, inspite of the implementation of the national nutritional anemia prophylaxis programme which provides iron and folic acid which are the essential nutrients lacking in their diet. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and pra...

Hematological changes and serum iron, vitamin B12 and folate levels after administration of iron plus folic acid were com· pared with changes and levels after supplement of iron alone in 100 pregnant women. No hematological benefits by adding folic acid was revealed. It is concluded that folic acid deficiency in pregnant women is mild and routine supplementation of folic acid is not necessary e...

Backgroud: Anemia initially begins with low hemoglobin respect to the number and quality of healthy red blood cells decrease. It thereby reduces oxygen transported in tissues. is one main causes maternal morbidity mortality, especially developing countries. During pregnancy, expansion cell mass increases transport iron transfer placenta fetus. Purpose: This study seeks determine factors associa...

malaria remains a complex problem during the pregnancy, which threatens > 35 millions pregnant women every year. malaria pathogenesis in pregnancy results in accumulation of infected rbcs in the intervillous spaces causing severe alterations leading to the reduced materno-foetal exchanges. in this article we have revisited the current evidences of clinical implications and overall burden of mal...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the differences regarding anemia among pregnant women with diverse characteristics and lifestyle factors. METHODS A cross-sectional study of pregnant women was conducted between June and August 2015 in 16 hospitals in five provinces of Mainland China. Self-reported doctor-diagnosed anemia was used in the study. RESULTS We included 2345 pregnant women. Of...