Periconceptional care and offspring health at birth and long term, from the perspective of Avicenna
| Autor: | Mohammad Mahdi Esfahani, Roya Kelishadi, Mohammad Ansaripour, Fatemeh Rakhshani, Iraj Nabipour, Arman Zargaran, Mohsen Naseri |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Web of science Offspring 0211 other engineering and technologies Scopus MEDLINE Early pregnancy factor 02 engineering and technology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Physicians 021105 building & construction medicine Humans biology business.industry Perspective (graphical) Child Health medicine.disease History Medieval 030205 complementary & alternative medicine Obstetrics Perinatal Care Complementary and alternative medicine biology.protein Female business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Integrative Medicine. 17:80-86 |
| ISSN: | 2095-4964 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joim.2019.01.003 |
| Popis: | Periconceptional care such as lifestyle plays an important impact role in offspring health. The aim of the present study was to clarify the perspective of Avicenna on periconceptional care. Avicenna (980-1037 A.D.) was one of the outstanding Persian physicians, who made great contributions to the field of medical sciences, in particular, obstetrics. In advance, Avicenna's book, Canon of Medicine, was considered to find his perspectives on periconceptional care. Then, his ideas and theories were compared to the current findings by searching the keywords in main indexing systems including PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus and Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science as well as the search engine of Google Scholar. Current investigations show that gamete quality, pregnancy outcome, and offspring health at birth and long term depend on both parents' lifestyle in pre- and periconceptional period, as well as the intrauterine environment. Avicenna believed that seminal fluid, sperm, ovum, and developing conditions in utero were influenced by the stages of food digestion and the function of some organs. On the other hand, food digestion and function of the organs also depend on each parent's lifestyle and environmental factors. He mentioned 6 principles of healthy lifestyle: exercise, nutrition, sleep and awareness, excretion of body wastes and retention of necessary materials, psychic features, as well as air and climate. Thus, a multicomponent healthy lifestyle should be considered by parents of child-bearing age in an appropriate period before and in early pregnancy as well as elimination of any disorders in parents, to give birth to more healthy offspring. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full Text from ScienceDirect