Obstetrical and Medical History of Pregnant Women with Toxoplasmosis in Al-Najaf Province, Case-Control Study

Bad obstetric history implies previous unfavorable foetal results such as consecutive spontaneous abortions for two or more, early neonatal death, have intrauterine foetal death, stillbirth, intrauterine growth retardation, and congenital deformities. This study aims to assessment the obstetrical and medical history of pregnant women with toxoplasmosis in Al-Najaf province.

A case control study was conducted in Al Zahra Teaching Hospital in Al-Najaf province. The cases in this study were the pregnant women with toxoplasmosis and the pregnant women without toxoplasmosis as (control). A number of 300 respondents were chosen using simple random sampling method.

Most of the participants were in the age group (21–25) yearsfor both groups. Most of participants in both groups have family income within range 401.000–800.000 IQD. Most of participants in both groups have primary level of education. Regarding to the occupations, most of the participants in both groups were housewives. Most of the participants in both groups were living in urban area without any statistical difference between groups. In addition, most of the cases have miscarriages (86%) following by stillbirth (18.7%), deformities (10.7%) and premature delivers (8%). While, the control group 11.3% had miscarriages 5.3% stillbirth and 45% premature delivers. It also shows that there are statistical significant differences between groups for items miscarriages stillbirth, deformities antiphospholipide syndrome and diabetes.

The odds ratio indicated that there was almost 7 items of 9 of obstetrics and medical history of cases were risk factor. While, for control group was protective factors.