الفهرس 
Consanguineous Marriage
Consanguinity and religion in EgyptOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Consanguinity is the blood relationship that exists
among individuals that descend from a common ancestor.
Consanguineous marriage presents all over the world. It is
high in Egypt (35.3%); especially among first cousins. It is
higher in rural areas than in semi-urban and urban areas.
The objective of the current study was to determine
the frequency of consanguine marriage in Kafr Abu
Raqabah, Ashmone Al Minufiyah Governorates and to
identify the frequencies of various birth outcomes and child
health-related problems due to consanguineous marriage in
children e.g. abortion, stillbirths, congenital malformations,
genetic disorders, diseases with autosomal recessive
inheritance, developmental disorders, congenital heart
diseases and hearing problems.
For this purpose survey was done for detection of the
total number of the families with consanguineous marriages
and divided by the total number of families in the village to
calculate the prevalence of consanguineous marriages, The
results revealed that the prevalence of consanguineous
marriages in the studied population was19.02% (175
families out of 920) according to family records reported in
the Abu Raquaba Family Health Center during the year
2015 and 2016. The present study showed significant relation
between consanguineous marriage and presence of child
health problems. The child health related problems were
higher (61.4%) in consanguineous group than (38.6%) in
the non-consanguineous group. It was noticed that most of
consanguineous group was first cousin marriage.
There was significant relation between number of
children and consanguinity of the parents (P value < 0.05).