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Changing paradigm of malnutrition among Bangladeshi women of reproductive age and gaps in national Nutrition Policies and Action Plans to tackle the emerging challenge.
Front Public Health
October 2024
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Objective: The main objective of this paper is to document the changing paradigm of malnutrition in Bangladesh and estimating how this is creating an intergenerational risk. This paper also examines national policy responses to tackle the silent epidemic of double burden of malnutrition.
Methods: Publicly available datasets of five Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys were used to see the changing paradigm of malnutrition among Bangladesh women.
Incidence, aetiology and short term outcomes of extreme hyperbilirubinaemia, in term infants born in the Western health subdistrict of Cape Town, South Africa between 2019 and 2020.
J Trop Pediatr
August 2024
University of Cape Town, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Extreme levels of bilirubin in newborn is a major cause of lifelong neurodevelopmental impairment, which places a financial burden on healthcare resources and caregivers. To determine the incidence, aetiology and short-term outcomes of extreme hyperbilirubinaemia in term infants born in a resource-limited setting. This is a retrospective observational study looking at term neonates with a birth weight ≥2500 g, born in the Western health subdistrict of Cape Town, South Africa, between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2020, who were exposed to a serum bilirubin level of ≥430 μmol/L in the first week of life and received care in the public health system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntrauterine transfusion under fetal analgesia: the evaluation of perinatal outcomes.
Front Pain Res (Lausanne)
July 2024
Department of Woman, Mother and Neonate, Buzzi Children's Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Introduction: Intrauterine transfusion is the treatment for fetal anemia resulting from maternal alloimmunization, infections (parvovirus B19 and cytomegalovirus), single demise of a monochorionic twin, chorioangioma, and other rare conditions. Fetal analgesia is mandatory to reduce movement and pain perception during the procedure. This study aims to evaluate perinatal outcomes for such procedures, following the routine use of fetal analgesia in our clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopment of pre-implantation genetic testing protocol for monogenic disorders (PGT-M) of Hb H disease.
BMC Genomics
July 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, 110 Intawaroros Road, Sripoom, Mueang, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.
Hb H disease is the most severe form of α-thalassemia compatible with post-natal life. Compound heterozygous α-thalassemia deletion/α-thalassemia deletion is the commonest cause of Hb H disease in Thailand. Preimplantation genetics testing for monogenic disorders (PGT-M) is an alternative for couples at risk of the disorder to begin a pregnancy with a healthy baby.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaternal and neonatal outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic and pre-pandemic in an urban slum in North India - A community-based ambispective cohort study.
J Family Med Prim Care
March 2024
Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected millions of people globally since its first case reported on December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The maternal and neonatal outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic were not much reported in low- and middle-income countries. Therefore, we aimed to assess the maternal and neonatal outcomes during COVID-19 and compared them with those of the pre-pandemic period (i.
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