Occurrence of Cleft Lip and Palate in terms of Maternal Health, Parents' Kinship, and NeonateWeight: a Case Study in the Infants of Southeastern part of Iran

摘要

Oral clefts including cleft lip (CL), cleft palate with orwithout cleft lip (CP/L) are one of the most commoncongenital deformities. The present study was conductedthrough a descriptive-retrospective study to examine thefrequency of cleft lip and palate based on demographicfactors including mother's health condition, parentskinship and weight of infants born in hospitals of Zahedanduring 2001_2011 years. The result is based on the availablehospital records of 142534 live births (there were 71717 boysand 70817 girls) collected from 4 hospitals of Zahedan city.Results indicate that mothers of about 0.12% of neonateswere not having any disease history whereas 0.15% neonatesborn with cleft palate, lip, or lip and palate were from suchmothers who were suffering from some diseases duringpregnancy. Conclusively, the higher occurrence rate of cleftsamong baby boys was from such mothers who had thepositive history of illness during pregnancy time or parentswere kinship.