The Journal of Middle East and North Africa Sciences

5-13

Authors: Havagiray R. Chitme; Dania Ali Al Numani; Miaad Majid Al Dhahri; Nouf Saif Al Mamari

Background: It is well proven that becoming overweight and obese during pregnancy increase complications in mother while delivering and neonates. Objective: Present study is envisaged to understand the correlation between maternal body composition and complications in mother and neonates. Methodology: It is a cross sectional longitudinal prospective study carried out at a tertiary care hospital in Oman among 300 randomly selected pregnant women. Results: Preeclampsia was recorded in 44% of patients and more than 67% of them were having more than one complaint. Maternal BMI, total visceral fat, resting metabolic rate are significantly (p<0.05) impacting neonatal birth weight and APGAR score. Maternal body age is correlated significantly (p<0.05) with birth weight and head circumference. The birth complication cesarean delivery, gestational diabetes, and gestational hypertension are significantly correlated with maternal body age, total body fat, and gestational age. Conclusion: Authors conclude that majority of the pregnant woman in their third trimester suffering from overweight or from high-fat deposition in their bodies are noted to have risks of macrosomia, impaired APGAR score, gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension and undergo cesarean delivery.

21-24

Authors: Dam Duc Hoan

Border issues are associated with human development. There is territory that has borders. In general, all countries attach importance to the border because borders are a factor to ensure sovereignty, peace, which is also a factor to ensure production and life, so countries that love peace all take care of your borders; at the same time respect the borders of neighboring countries. But people are often greedy, want to expand their territory, gain more slaves, more cattle, want to become powerful leaders. Therefore, since ancient times, there have been many border wars, conquering other countries. Humans had to fight constantly with arguments covering and defending the encroachment and ruling territory. Some researchers have proposed many types of borders: historical borders, natural borders, linguistic borders, religious borders, racial boundaries, cultural borders ... Tu Quang Du said: "Geographic boundaries take territory, territorial waters, are internationally recognized as standards, and strategic borders are not subject to territorial limits, territorial sea, or not. Strategic borders determine the survival space of a nation, a nation, so it is necessary to find every wing to push the battlefield from the geographical border to the strategic border (Du, 1987). Globalization is an inevitable phenomenon in human history. Over the past few decades, the pace of global integration has become increasingly profound due to unprecedented advances in technology, communications, science, transportation, and industry. As a result, the exchange of goods and products, capital, information, knowledge, and culture among countries have overcome all limitations of space and time, bringing positive effects to the development of economies and for people's lives in many parts of the world. The current globalization process is impacting many aspects of international life, including national borders. Globalization is an expansion of the market beyond national borders, a market trend that is less and less bound by territorial geography.