Background: Neonatal outcomes, such as birth weight and Apgar scores, are key indicators of intrauterine health and immediate postnatal adaptation. Several maternal and obstetric factors influence these outcomes; however, the role of environmental exposures, such as carbon monoxi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i91423
Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) remain an important obstetric concern because physiological changes during pregnancy increase susceptibility to bacterial colonisation and may contribute to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Aims: This study determined the prevale...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i61397
Background: Carbon monoxide (CO) is a combustion-derived pollutant that reduces oxygen transport and may produce hypoxic stress during pregnancy. The placenta is central to maternal-foetal exchange and may show structural responses to environmental insults. However, evidence link...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i61396
Background: Chemical pathology (clinical biochemistry) is central to perinatal medicine, delivering objective data from maternal blood, urine, and neonatal samples to detect, monitor, and manage disorders affecting pregnancy and new-born health. Pregnancy induces major physiologi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2026/v24i21355
Chiamaka Mercy Mgbemele, Daniel Ebubechi Obasi, Daniel Oyedemi, Irene Adjoa Anderson & Uchechukwu Bethel Abioke·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2025
Background: Bell's palsy is becoming more common in women and is frequently associated with pregnancy. Charles Bell was the first to define it in the 19th century as facial muscular paralysis brought on by an unidentified cause which predisposes people to physical, social, and ps...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2025/v23i11162
Background: The AFI is directly associated with adverse outcomes for both the mother and the foetus; oligohydramnios (AFI ≤8 cm) and polyhydramnios (AFI ≥25 cm) are considered ‘abnormal’. The aim of this study was to compare the maternal and foetal complications in full-term preg...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i111130
Mehera Parveen, Jinat Fatema, Kazi Farhana Begum, Bidisha Chakma, Tanzina lveen Chowdhury & Tripti Rani Das·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2024
Background: There are many risk factors of development of preeclampsia among the pregnant women. Objective: The purpose of the present study has set out to assess the relationship between preeclampsia and blood ionized magnesium levels. Methodology: This case-control study was pe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i3990
Introduction: Genotype is an inward expression of gene or the combination of alleles, situated on corresponding chromosomes that determines a specific trait of an individual. Sickle Cell Disease is associated with higher clinical and obstetric complications compared to the gener...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i930495
Joshua Dindiok Dubik, Mubarick Nungbaso Asumah, Gilbert Ti-enkawol Nachinab, Ayishetu Gariba, Anoome Irene Adumbire, Lamisi Christabel Adimazoya & Amoro Rosemary Abondomah·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2022
Background: Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health is supreme to healthy living, and because the health of adolescents is important, it has compelled most countries across the globe to put up appropriate measures to meet their needs. Aims: The main aim of the study was to as...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i330449
M. Kumarasinghe, K. Kasturiaratchi, H. Jayakody, S. Irfaan, W. S. Samarasinghe, M. Liyanagama, H. Dassanayake, S. Godakandage & C. De Silva·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2021
Aims: Limited knowledge exists on pregnancy outcome among COVID-19 positive pregnant women despite relatively better understanding on disease severity in pregnancy. Objective of this assessment is to describe the maternal characteristics and factors associated with disease severi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i1230426
Background: The case of sexual behavior in adolescents is increasingly worrisome because teenage sexual behavior is now exceeding the limits and quite alarming. This is supported by research an increasing pattern in adolescent pregnancy in sub-Sahara Africa. Methods: An interview...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i1030377
The pregnancy process involves many physiological changes, including weight gain, hormonal, metabolic and immune changes. One of the effective factors in this process is infection caused by microorganisms. Originally, before the advent of antibiotics, pregnancy was known as a ris...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i530326
Background: Chronic kidney disease can affect different aspects of female patient’s life including menstrual pattern, marital status and sexuality, fertility, pregnancy outcome, and recommended methods of contraception especially when initiated on HD. In Egypt, it has been notice...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i630216
Sherif Wagih Mansour, Ali Khalil Asalah, Kamelia Ibrahim Attia, Somya E. l. Sayed Mohammed & Ahmad Desoky·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2019
Background: Apelin is an endogenous ligand for the G protein-coupled receptor Apelin receptor (APJ), The expression of both apelin and APJ has been detected in a variety of tissues including heart, brain ,ovary , placenta and uterus. Aim of the Study: This study was designed to...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2019/v15i230119
Background: Despite the fact that anaemia is a preventable morbidity in most cases, its prevalence among pregnant women is still unacceptably high especially in rural and sub-urban settings. This is worrisome considering the enormous contribution of anaemia to maternal and infant...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2019/v15i130112