ABSTRACT
A cross sectional study was conducted in 14 selected villages of Gazipur Thana with the aim to find the prevalence of home deliveries and ante natal care coverage. All those females who delivered in the recent past (within last three months) from the selected villages were the study population Data were collected by two trained interviewers with a semi-structured interview schedule. Study result shows that 83% of the respondents received ante natal check-up throughout their last pregnancy. Most of this group (88.5%) received this care from "Health Assistant or 'Family Welfare visitor's while only 3.1% received care from graduate doctors. Out of 505 respondents 91.3% of the respondents was found to have delivered at home while only 8.7% at institutions. Study findings also suggested that there was association of place of delivery with level of education and family income of the respondents. Also there was associations of utilisation of antenatal care with level of education and family income of the respondents.
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Home Childbirth/statistics & numerical data , Prenatal Care/organization & administration , Rural Health/statistics & numerical data , Bangladesh , Community Health Workers/organization & administration , Cross-Sectional Studies , Developing Countries , Educational Status , Female , Health Care Surveys , Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Income , Midwifery/organization & administration , Pregnancy , Prevalence , Socioeconomic Factors , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
This study was done in a trial to understand how estrogen performs its antiosteoporotic action. Twenty six postmenopausal women and twenty premenopausal women were included in the study. We measured serum estradiol, interleukin 6 (IL-6) and osteocalcin. We found a highly significant difference in serum estradiol and IL-6 between the two groups. In postmenopausal group, there was a negative significant correlation between estradiol level and both IL-6 and osteocalcin levels. Also there was a significant positive correlation between serum osteocalcin and IL-6. For the premenopausal group of patients there was no significant correlation between any of the parameters. When correlating the parameters of all the 46 patients, there was a highly negative significant correlation between estradiol level and IL-6 and a negative significant correlation between estradiol level and osteocalcin, while there was a positive significant correlation between osteocalcin and IL-6. We can conclude that estrogen exerts its antiosteoporotic effect by modulating the production of IL-6, thus inhibiting its stimulatory effect on osteoblasts.
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Estradiol/analysis , Interleukin-6/analysis , Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal/diagnosis , Adult , Aged , Egypt , Estradiol/blood , Estrogens , Female , Humans , Interleukin-6/blood , Middle AgedABSTRACT
We describe an infant born at 29 weeks' gestation with oligohydramnios sequence due to amniotic fluid leakage following chorionic villus sampling at 12 weeks. To our knowledge, this is the first such report.
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Chorionic Villi Sampling/adverse effects , Oligohydramnios/etiology , Adult , Chorioamnionitis/complications , Female , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Male , Obstetric Labor, Premature/etiology , Oligohydramnios/complications , PregnancyABSTRACT
Cyclic GMP contents of the thyroid gland and ovary were significantly increased in response to single and multiple treatments of bromocriptine, an effect which was antagonized by sulpiride. Liver and adrenocortical cyclic GMP levels have not been changed by bromocriptine although sulpiride alone induced a significant reduction. The data may indicate the presence of D2 receptors in ovary and thyroid gland that are related to cyclic GMP.
