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Obesity and Pregnancy
- dhastagir sheriff (24 August 2009)
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dhastagir sheriff, Professor Al ArabMedical University,Benghazi
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Obesity is a global phenomenon. It is not restricted to affluent societies. You could witness obesity related problems in all societies. Providing clinical services to obese females with gynaecological problems seems to warrant guidelines of practice. Child-bearing is a universal human right. Allocation of resources cannot be a guideline to restrict such a service for an obese female wanting to have a baby. Whether the female is obese or non-obese, in many societies viability of a marriage rests upon the capacity to bear a child. Such females need counselling more than clinical services. Simple suggestion to reduce weight can correct irregular menstrual periods and helped obese females to reproduce. Full data is available with us to indicate such counselling along with dietary advice help resolve the clinical as well as their sociological problems. What we do and how we treat individual patients rely mostly on the moral sensitivity as well as clinical acumen of the treating physician. Obesity is a problem that needs attention and the physician is there to help provide a better quality of life to a patient. In such a situation it is better to adopt the connexional dimension of physician-patient relationship where the physician develops a nexus with the patient and thinks like the patient to decide the treatment module. Sheriff, Life Member, European Society for Human Embryology and human development Conflict of Interest:None declared |
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