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Consanguineous Marriages and Dental Anomalies: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study [PDF]
International Journal of Dentistry, 2022 Objective. To determine the correlation between consanguineous marriages and dental anomalies. Study Design. A cross-sectional analytical study. Materials and Methods.
Beenish Abbas +5 more
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Consanguineous marriages and their association with women’s reproductive health and fertility behavior in Pakistan: secondary data analysis from Demographic and Health Surveys, 1990–2018 [PDF]
BMC Women's Health, 2022 Background Pakistan has been showing consistently the highest prevalence of consanguinity. The popularity of consanguineous marriages is not declining in the country, because of social, cultural, and religious beliefs as well as economic advantages ...
Sarosh Iqbal +3 more
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Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Hearing and Language Disorders: Study Among a Group of Egyptian Children [PDF]
Journal of OtologyBackground Even though various research has demonstrated the connection between consanguinity and health issues, consanguineous marriage still common in Egypt with high prevalence rate 35.3%, 23.5% in semi-urban and 17.7% in urban areas.MethodsThis study
Sherien A. Nasser +3 more
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Consanguineous marriages in the genetic counseling centers of Isfahan and the ethical issues of clinical consultations [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2017 Consanguineous marriage, which is common in many regions in the world, has absorbed much attention as a causative factor in raising the incidence of genetic diseases.
Narges Nouri +6 more
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Health Awareness and Consequences of Consanguineous Marriages
Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 2015 Objectives: This community-based study was done to assess the awareness of people regarding the ill effects of consanguinity and to observe its association with various sociodemographic variables and complications among children.
Nitin Joseph
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Prevalence and perception of consanguineous marriage among medical students. [PDF]
The Egyptian Family Medicine Journal, 2022 : Background: Consanguineous marriages occur in most of populations, with different percentages among all marriages. The consanguinity rates in the Middle East, North Africa, Southwest Asia, and South India range between 20-50% or more of all marriages ...
Hala Elsabagh +3 more
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for the offspring and constitutes an economic problem with its associated medical ...
Akyol, Pelin, Mocan, N.
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The Economics Of Consanguineous Marriages [PDF]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006 This paper provides an economic rationale for the practice of consanguineous marriages observed in parts of the developing world. In a model of incomplete marriage markets, dowries are viewed as ex ante transfers made from the bride's family to the groom's family when the promise of ex post gifts and bequests is not credible. Consanguineous unions join
Quy-Toan Do, Sriya Iyer, Shareen Joshi
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Thirty Years of Consanguineous Marriages in Pakistan
NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023 Almost half of all marriages in Pakistan are consanguineous. Despite its high prevalence, little is known about the change over time in consanguineous unions in Pakistan. Examining the patterns of the cousin marriages is particularly important given the
Saima Bashir, Saman Nazir
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Annals of Human Biology, 2021 Background Consanguinity has been extensively studied in the context of its negative health outcomes for offspring and socio-demographic factors, but little evidence-based research has been done on its potential social benefits.
M. Mazharul Islam
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