Ahmed Kabaha

Sheba Medical Center

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Wasef Na’amnih

Tel Aviv University

Tamy Shohat

Tel Aviv University

Orly Romano‐Zelekha

Israel Ministry of Health

Natalya Bilenko

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Lutfi Jaber

Clalit Health Services

Mira Honovich

Israel Ministry of Health

Liza Pollack Rubin

Israel Ministry of Health

Nehama Goldberger

Israel Ministry of Health

Hannah Sprecher

Rambam Health Care Campus

Nabil Geraisy

Nazareth Hospital EMMS

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University of Haifa

Sheba Medical Center

Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Schneider Children's Medical Center

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Continuous decrease of consanguineous marriages among arabs in israel

American Journal of Human Biology (2014)

Wasef Na’amnih Orly Romano‐Zelekha Ahmed Kabaha Liza Pollack Rubin Natalya Bilenko

To describe the trend in the rate of consanguineous marriages among the Israeli Arab population and to identify factors associated with this custom shift in recent years.The study was conducted between November 2009 and January 2010 in Family Health Centers. A questionnaire was presented to parents during routine visits to the center with their children.Information on 6,437 couples was collected. The rate of consanguineous marriages decreased from 35.8% among those married before 2000, to 28.2% among those married in 2000-2004, and to 24.0% among those married in 2005-2009 (P for trend <0.001). First cousin marriages were the most common type of consanguineous marriages in all the time periods. Consanguineous marriages were associated with consanguinity between the couples' parents (both husband and wife), a high consanguinity rate in the place of residence and younger age at marriage (wife).The rates of consanguineous marriages among Israeli Arabs are decreasing but still high. Because consanguineous marriages are widely acceptable, the role of public health professionals and primary care personnel is to provide comprehensive information about the potential genetic risks of consanguinity on offspring health and to increase the accessibility of premarital and preconception counseling services.

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10.1002/ajhb.22610

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Suicidal behavior among Muslim Arabs in Israel

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2011)

Gilad Gal Nehama Goldberger Ahmed Kabaha Ziona Haklai Nabil Geraisy

10.1007/s00127-010-0307-y

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Prevalence of consanguineous marriages and associated factors among Israeli Bedouins

Journal of Community Genetics (2014)

Wasef Na’amnih Orly Romano‐Zelekha Ahmed Kabaha Liza Pollack Rubin Natalya Bilenko

Consanguineous Marriage

10.1007/s12687-014-0188-y

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Meningitis Following Spinal Anesthesia: 6 Cases in 5 Years

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (2007)

Lisa Rubin Hannah Sprecher Ahmed Kabaha Regina Weber Nava Teitler

We describe 6 cases of meningitis after spinal anesthesia associated with a single anesthesiologist over the course of 5 years. The earliest case occurred in 2000, and the other 5 cases occurred over the course of 14 months in 2004-2005. The case identified in 2000 was culture-positive for Streptococcus salivarius . The other 5 cases were culture-negative for this organism but in 2 cases, the cerebrospinal fluid was found to be positive for bacterial DNA that was identified as belonging to S. salivarius by sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The association with a single anesthesiologist and a single hospital during a relatively short interval, however, lead us to believe that these occurrences are part of a series associated with possible violations of aseptic technique.

Streptococcus salivarius

Aseptic meningitis

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Aseptic processing

10.1086/520748

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