Incidence of Gross congenital neural tube defect and its risk factors in new borns at obstetric centre of Vally_e_Asr Hospital in Zanjan

Background and Çongenital anomalies are common causes of mortality & morbidity in children. Ïts treatment and rehabilitation imposes high economic burden on the society. The oceurence of the defects in newborns with congenital, environmental or both factors is 3-5%. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of Gross congenital neural tube defect in newborns at obstetric center of the Vally-e-Âsr Hospital in Zanjan. Detection of correlation between N.T. D & the parameters such as the place of Mother’s residence, duration of pregnancy and past history of N.T.D in family were among the secondary objective. This was a cross-sectional prospective study done on all newborns that were visited at least once by physician and data were recorded in special form. From a total of 2250 newborns,14 had N.T.D. (birth). The most common (N.T.D) was spina bifida-cystica (Meningomylo cele & then Meningocele) and mothers in this group were resident in villages (78 %) and 71% of newborns in this groups were term anomaly group, 98% of mothers had history of NTD and also 42% with history of abortion. Çonclusion: Çontrary to prevalence of NTD in the Ü.S. (), in our study the Gross anomaly of NTD was higher (birth). There are significant statistical differences between the prevalence of NTD and low socio- economic and residence status of mothers.