Chronic Morbidity in Women, Namely in Pregnancy. Comparative Study between West, Central and East European Centres

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Authors

KUKLA Lubomír BOUCHALOVÁ Marie SHKIRIAK-NYZHNYK Zoreslava CHYSLOVSKA Natalyia GOLDING Jean GOODFELLOW Stephanie IGNATJEVA Rimma

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Likarska sprava - Vračebnoe delo
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Faculty of Medicine

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Field Epidemiology, infectious diseases and clinical immunology
Keywords Chronic diseases; female morbidity; pregnancy; geographic differences; geographic gradients; epidemiologic study
Description 18 chronic diseases were investigated in a population of 13115 women living in six settings of West- (Avon UK, the Isle of Man), Central- (the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic) and East- Europe (the Ukraine and Russia), that collaborate in the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC project). Lifetime prevalence of chronic diseases and their prevalence in pregnancy were the highest in the western zone and decreased eastwards, but recurrence grew in the opposite direction, being the highest in the eastern zone. The variation of each morbidity indicator is followed in all diseases between geographical zones as well as between individual study centres.
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