ABSTRACT: Background: Gestational weight gain (GWG) is an important factor to be determined during pregnancy. GWG is affected as well as it itself affects various parameters related to pregnancy. The main aim of our study was to find the relationship between gestational weight gain with factors such as demographic factors, type of delivery and maternal comorbidities. Method: A prospective, multi-centric study involving 67 pregnant women of different villages of Mehsana district of Gujarat region was conducted
Postpartum Depression The following paper seeks to answer the following questions. What is postpartum depression? How is it diagnosed? What are the signs and symptoms? What are the risk factors? How is it treated? What are the responses to treatment? Postpartum depression dates back as far as Hippocrates in 400 BC. Hippocrates described postpartum depression as a “fever” manifesting as agitation and delirium. Before the 19th Century, women were called nervous or too sensitive, doctors
Infertility is a major obstacle to good health and peaceful co-existence in many homes especially in developing countries. In spite of this, the treatment of infertility has not received adequate and comprehensive attention. Most of the discussions have centred on fertility reduction. Serious attempt has not been made to address treatment of infertility according taxonomy of causes of infertility. This why infertility treatments, even simple ones such as treatment of STIs (that cause infertility)
the longest-lived people on the planet and they eat a strictly vegetarian diet” (Hyman 4). To conduct a completely accurate experiment about eating meat versus not eating meat would be extremely difficult and expensive (Hyman 7). Thus, many food studies are completely biased and do not produce accurate results. So, who is to say whether eating meat or not eating meat is actually better for you? The point of this essay is not to discredit or point fingers at those who do eat meat. The point is that
BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES Abstract: This essay covers the different aspects of blood pressure; the history behind the discovery of blood pressure and its risk factors as well as the common medical terminology related to blood pressure. Not only that, it also reviews the different classification of blood pressure level in general as well as to specific age groups. Lastly, it covers the different approaches to measure blood pressures and discusses about the comparison between the different