دورية أكاديمية
Bio-demographic characteristics of households and risk factors for Down Syndrome in Morocco
| العنوان: | Bio-demographic characteristics of households and risk factors for Down Syndrome in Morocco |
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| المؤلفون: | Zahra Oulmane, Mohamed Cherkaoui, Rekia Belahsen, Mohamed Kamal Hilali |
| المصدر: | Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny, Vol 74, Iss 4, Pp 415-420 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Nutrition. Foods and food supply LCC:Industrial medicine. Industrial hygiene LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | down syndrome, socio-bio-demographic factors, oral contraceptive, maternal age, paternal age, children, morocco, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, TX341-641, Industrial medicine. Industrial hygiene, RC963-969, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: | Background. The most studied risk factors for Down Syndrom (DS) were: region of residence, exposure to chemicals, parents’ education level, cigarette and alcohol use by father or mother or both, and oral contraceptive (OC) use. Objective. The aim of this study was to compare certain variables considered as risk factors on DS such as parental age at birth, OC use, child’s sex, and rank of birth between children with DS and their siblings without DS as well as to determine the socio-bio-demographic characteristics of the families studied compared with the general Moroccan population. Material and Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 277 families with 925 siblings and at least one child with DS (279 with DS) between 2014 and 2017. The data are collected using a standardized questionnaire in MarrakechSafi region. Data were entered and analyzed using the statistical program SPSS statistics software for Windows (version 20.0). Chi-square (χ2) and Student t tests were used for testing statistical significance. Differences were considered significant when the p-value |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0035-7715 2451-2311 |
| Relation: | http://wydawnictwa.pzh.gov.pl/roczniki_pzh/bio-demographic-characteristics-of-households-and-risk-factors-for-down-syndrome-in-morocco?lang=pl; https://doaj.org/toc/0035-7715; https://doaj.org/toc/2451-2311 |
| DOI: | 10.32394/rpzh.2023.0283 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/a9de1266c67a4179a5da9ad089915315 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.9de1266c67a4179a5da9ad089915315 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 00357715 24512311 |
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| DOI: | 10.32394/rpzh.2023.0283 |