Abstract
Sayeeda Zakia Khanam1 and Hamida Khanum2,3* Author Affiliations 1Consultant, Gynae@ Obs, Shaphena General Hospital Ltd. Dit Rd, Dhaka, Bangldesh 2American International University, Bangladesh 3Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Received: June 07, 2021 | Published: June 18, 2021 Corresponding author: Hamida Khanum, Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.36.005881
Highlights
Maternal iron deficiency and anemia render the offspring vulnerable for developing deficiency and malnutrition right from infancy
It can be concluded that among the respondent 44% presented with malnutrition and the associated risk factors included socio-economic factors, behavioral factors, clinical factors and reproductive factors
Demographic Information of the Respondents: Age of the Respondents: The age range of these women was divided into three categories shown in figure of the present study (Figure) 1, where 9% respondents were below 20 years, 75% were 20 to years and about 16% were in years and above (Figure 1)
Summary
Maternal iron deficiency and anemia render the offspring vulnerable for developing deficiency and malnutrition right from infancy. This could help explain many of the inter-related variables which come into play in explaining the prevailing situation in the Keranigonj of Bangladesh [1]. It was suggested that highly publicized initiatives such as “child survival” and “safe motherhood” have not had the expected effect because too little attention has been given to the nutritional status of women, including mothers [1,5,6]. Some 200 million women become pregnant each year, most of them in developing countries [7] Many of these women suffer from both ongoing nutritional deficiencies and the long-term cumulative consequences of under nutrition during childhood. Hygiene and nutrition are associated with repeated, closely spaced pregnancies that progressively reduce women’s nutritional reserves to the point of nutritional depletion [11,12,13]
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