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R Prywes

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PubMed1976

Fertility and perinatal and infant mortality in the Jewish population of Beersheba and the Negev, 1972.

There were 4,569 Jewish births in the Negev (southern Israel) in 1972, the first year of birth registration by the Unit for Evaluation and Planning of Kupat Holim and the Ben-Gurion University center for Health Sciences. The crude birth rate was 28.8 per 1,000 population, with 130.7 live births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years. Total fertility was 3.9 per woman, varying from 3.4 in the kibbutzim and 3.5 in Beersheba to 5.2 in the moshavim (collective settlements) and 3.7 to 6.3 in the development towns. Late fetal and perinatal death rates were 9.4 and 19.0/1,000, and the neonatal and infant mortality rates, 11.0 and 18.1/1,000 respectively. The proportion of males was 0.51, the twinning rate was 9.5/1,000 women delivered, and 1.1% of babies were illegitimate. Low birth weight (less than 2.5 kg) was recorded in 6.9% of births. Fifty-three percent of births were to immigrant mothers from North Africa; the remainder were divided equally among mothers born in Israel, the Asian Near East, and Western countries. The Asian immigrant group was at high risk for infant death, with a rate of 3.64/1,000 as compared with 14.8, 14.2 and 5.8 recorded for the offspring of mothers born in Israel, North Africa and Western countries, respectively. Patterns of mortality in relation to maternal age, birth order and education were similar to those reported for developed countries.

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PubMed1976

Toxemia of pregnancy in Jerusalem. II. The role of diet.

A dietary history was obtained from 180 patients with preeclampsia and eclampsia, representing 92% of all cases occurring in the pregnant population of West Jerusalem over a defined period. The intake of nutrients and 78 items of diet was compared for each patient and two healthy control subjects who were matched for country of origin, parity, month of delivery, age, year of immigration and years of schooling. All diagnoses were made by the same research team and dietary histories were elicited by one of two experienced dieticians. Comparisons between the 180 patients and their respective control pairs showed a significantly reduced intake of calories, proteins and fats and an increase in consumption of sugar and sweets by the patients. The food items involved, including cheese, eggs, olives and nuts, did not appear consistently, however, in population subgroups defined by age, period of immigration and country of origin. Sixty-six patients reported not having changed their diets during pregnancy and these showed no significant differences in consumption of any of the foods or nutrients at the 1% level, when compared with their matched control subjects. All differences observed were confined to the 114 patients who, for one reason or another, had changed their diets. It is concluded that the differences in diet between patients and control subjects are the result, and not the cause, of the toxemia of pregnancy. Supporting and contradictory evidence in the literature is analyzed, and possible sources of the discrepancies are pointed out.

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