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T. Thangaleela ¹, R. Grace Arthi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

Abstract

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airway of the lungs associated with an increase in airway hyperresponsiveness leading to recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and coughing, particularly at night or in the early morning. About 155 million individuals worldwide and 50 million people in the developing countries are affected by asthma and in India over 11-15 million people of all ages are affected1. People with intrinsic asthma have no clinical or family history of atopy and it is due to some intrinsic abnormality of the bronchus.

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T. Thangaleela ¹, P. Vijayalakshmi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Family and Community Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed university Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

Abstract

Though pregnancy and childbirth are normal physiological phenomena, they are crucial periods in a woman's life for it is during this time she builds up in her own body, tissues and organs of a new human being. So she is put under great physiological demands arising out of the foetus growing in her womb.

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T. Thangaleela ¹, P. Vijayalakshmi ¹

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1 Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore 641 043, IN

Abstract

Nutritional anaemia is believed to be the most wide spread nutritional disorder in the world affecting 30 per cent of the world's population. It is more common among the expectant mothers. The WHO report gives the anaemia prevalence picture at global level as 55.9 per cent among the expectant mothers. In South Asia 65 per cent of pregnant women are affected by nutritional anaemia. In India, the incidence of anaemia among expectant mothers is alarmingly high.

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T. Thangaleela ¹, P. Vijayalakshmi ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Family and Community Sciences, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

Abstract

Anaemia associated with pregnancy is a public health problem all over the world. The WHO report gives the anaemia prevalence picture at global level as 55.9 per cent among the expectant mothers. It is significantly higher in the third trimester than in the first and second trimester of pregnancy.

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