ArticleIranian Red Crescent medical journal2014
Risk factors of neural tube defects in northern iran.
Article in Iranian Red Crescent medical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation and Neural Tube Defects in Northeast Iran: Insights for Developing Countries.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2026Article
- Determinants of neural tube defects among women who gave birth in hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia: evidence from a matched case control study.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Epidemiology and determinant factors of neural tube defect: Narrative review.Surgical neurology international · 2020Review
- Risk factors associated with neural tube defects in infants referred to western Iranian obstetrical centers; 2013-2014.Electronic physician · 2017Article
- Incidence and Risk Factors of Neural Tube Defects in Kashan, Central Iran.Iranian journal of child neurology · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundNeural tube defects (NTDs) including spina bifida and anencephaly are the second most common birth defects with 2.8 per 1000 births in northern Iran.
objectivesThis study was conducted to determine the risk factors of neural tube defects in Gorgan, north of Iran. PATIENTS AND
methodsThis hospital-based, case-control study was carried out on all NTD-affected pregnancies (n = 59) during February 2007 - August 2010, and 160 healthy pregnancies were selected via convenient sampling method in three hospitals in Gorgan, north of Iran. Risk factors including maternal body mass index (BMI), season of birth, gender of the newborn, mother's age, ethnicity, consanguineous marriage, folic acid consumption, nutrition, habitat, and education, were assessed through interviews with mothers. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the risks by odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals.
resultsTHE MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT MATERNAL BMI (NORMAL/UNDERWEIGHT OR: 0.23, overweight/underweight OR: 0.15, obese/underweight OR: 0.13) and maternal ethnicity (Fars/Sistani OR: 3.49) and maternal nutrition (good/poor OR: 0.46) were significantly correlated with NTDs in the newborns.
conclusionsThis study showed that maternal ethnicity, insufficient nutrition, and BMI, were the main risk factors of NTDs in northern Iran.
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