10^th World Pediatric Congress

Biography

Biography: Olfat Nasser Alzaab

Abstract

Collection of birth and population information is essential to providing vital statistics data for national use. The purpose of this study is to report statistics on the distribution of the newborn population in the United Arab Emirates, specifically in the Northern Emirates of Sharjah and Fujairah. We collected demographic information from 1059 random subjects born between October 2015 and March 2017 at Al Qassimi Hospital in Sharjah (630 newborns) and Fujairah Hospital (429 newborns), in the network of the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health and Prevention. The gender distribution of the newborns was 532 females (50.24%) and 527 males (49.76%). This distribution differed between the hospitals with 47.94% females and 52.06% males at Al Qassimi and 53.61% females and 46.39% males at Fujairah. The average gestational age at birth was 38.29±1.84 weeks (38.51±1.25 weeks at Al Qassimi, 37.98±2.42 weeks at Fujairah). The ethnic distribution of the newborns was 57.88% Middle Eastern (39.05% at Al Qassimi, 85.55% at Fujairah), 16.34% South Asian (26.03% at Al Qassimi, 2.10% at Fujairah), 7.27% Asian-other than South Asian (7.62% at Al Qassimi, 6.76% at Fujairah), 3.68% African-other than North African (4.76% at Al Qassimi, 2.10% at Fujairah), 3.12% North African (4.92% at Al Qassimi, 0.47% at Fujairah), 0.28% Caucasian (0.48% at Al Qassimi, 0% at Fujairah) and 11.43% with mixed ethnicity (17.14% at Al Qassimi, 3.03% at Fujairah).