Posted on 06/24/2016 2:46:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tackling infertility among Gulf is different due to social and cultural issues, alerts IVI Fertility Middle East
Consanguineous couples – those marrying first or second-degree relatives – are a major cause of a high infertility in the Gulf, said a study published by Professor Dr Human Mousavi Fatemi, Medical Director, IVI Fertility Middle East.
The study further highlights that there are differences in treating GCC patients, compared to western patients, due to cultural and social issues.
This medical study is of great significance not only in the Gulf but also globally, since over 20 per cent of children have consanguineous parents.
It is the first time that these findings are analysed and presented to the scientific and medical communities worldwide and in the Middle East. The results of the study are extremely valuable for public health and a point of reference for many IVF doctors trying to treat fertility cases in the Gulf.
According to Dr Fatemi, there are unique and specific factors leading to infertility – social and cultural, which are very different from western countries. Four of these factors that have significant impact on fertility in GCC population are: higher prevalence of consanguinity, in addition to Vitamin D deficiency, obesity and the desire to have larger families.
According to the study, parental consanguinity has been associated with both male and female infertility in multiple cases. In females, it prematurely reduces the ovarian reserve i.e. the bank of fertile eggs in women. Amongst males, it causes chromosome Y abnormalities, leading to genetic sperm defects.
“Today, infertility is globally acknowledged to be a major health problem. It is estimated that infertility affects 15 per cent of the global population of reproductive age, but this percentage is even higher in the Gulf,” added Dr Fatemi.
“It was proven that by the age of 20, women born of consanguineous parents have an extremely low ovarian reserve, which is normally found in women from the age of 40,” explained Dr Human Fatemi.
“Consanguineous parents also have the risk of having a baby with genetic disorders. We at IVI Fertility, exclusively in the Middle East, offer a highly advanced genetic test, the Carrier Genetic Test (CGT). It is a simple blood test that is carried out when planning a family to prevent the risk of having a baby with genetic disorders. The CGT is highly recommended to all couples who are attempting a pregnancy by natural or IVF means,” added Dr Faterni.
Genetic testing
Dr Human Fatemi recommends genetic testing for carriers regardless of pregnancy occurring naturally or through IVF, given the fact that a large percentage of people in the GCC are prone to genetic abnormalities. Generally, parents only realize they are carriers of serious genetic disorders after an affected child is born. Genetic disorders can't be cured, but they can be prevented. With this test, couples can be assured of a healthy pregnancy. If both partners test positive in a Carrier Genetic Test with the same gene mutation, the recommendation is to undertake an IVF procedure and eliminate a genetically effected embryo through PGS screening.
“Healthy embryos have an enhanced chance of a successful pregnancy and a healthy baby”, says Dr Fatemi.
Oh, I think they’re both problems. The left is playing with fire when it comes to muzzies.
I don’t get it, either!
And why haven’t the Leftists aborted themselves out of existence, too?
But they are so smart! They invented algebra, astronomy and all that stuff. /s
“After having spent some time in Persia, what is now Iran and Iraq, I am of the persuasion that all of those people over there are possessing of genes that predespose them to madness. In other words, they are almost all crazy as mad hatters and are inbred in the worst possible way.”
Quote from an old friend that drilled over there for many years before the Shah was deposed.
1400 years of Muslim inbreeding has produced people with higher incidents of genetic diseases and mental illness while simultaneously lowering IQ scores. So basically you have an entire religion of stupid, crazy fanatics.
Made to order
That kind of flies in the face of Merkel and one of her reasons for wanting to take into Germany so many ME young adult males.
Many of them seem to be duds, Angela.
[Another Lib idea that looked good on paper and turned to rubbish.]
Here is an article about Muslim inbreeding:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433495/posts
not so stupid.....that is why the Arabs are over running Europe, to find new breeding stock....the tribe with the most babies wins....
I thought this article was about the South... now the muzzies are doing it to... wonderful.
Golly,
A definition of GCC might be a start.
Rape and pillage is instinct, not smarts. They do it only because some equally idiotic Imam said the prophet said to and since the prophet said it, these morons just do it without thought.
in breeding thru out the region is a cause of concern for the ruling class.
> I question this study. Cousin marriages were quite common in the US in the 1800s, and before and are still legal in many states. There was no infertility noted as a result.
I think they may be exaggerating the effects too. In Europe first-cousin marriages were fairly common back then too, among the upper classes. In the U.S. I’m aware of two first-cousin couples from the first half of the last century, and neither had problems with fertility or with the physical or mental state of the children. Of course, they came from large populations, though, so they probably didn’t have additional genes in common.
> I suppose if it continued generation after generation, there could be a problem...
Yes, in small populations in which the general population has shared genes for generations, first-cousin marriages would probably represent a considerably closer relationship than that of the individuals themselves.
That these mohammedans are not reproducing sounds like a good thing to me.
> "This practice [first-cousin marriage], which has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses..." [quotation from the link]
I didn't recall myself, but had my doubts about it because marriage between first cousins was commonplace among the European aristocracy. Here's a link that specifies exact relationships along with Biblical passages, and concludes that the prohibition of marriage between blood relatives didn't include first cousins.
[Of course, if Adam and Eve were accepted as the ancestors of all of us, all of us would be blood relations -- natural selection too posits common ancestors -- but it would be a matter of where to draw the line in closeness of relationship.]
Though many other relationships were specifically forbidden in the Bible, that of first cousins was not. (Yet that would probably be one often brought into question in small-population ancient societies, so the silence on that probably indicates that it was accepted or, at least, tolerated.) "Conclusion:Scripture does not prohibit marriage between first-cousins."
Inbred livestock starts having reproductive problems after a few generations.
Yes, one generation of first cousins is probably not much of a problem.
Look up the Spanish Habsburgs & King Charles the Bewitched.
Inbreeding had consequences among the European aristocracy.
Yes, I cited first-cousin marriage among the European aristocracy in response to the inaccurate claim that first-cousin marriage had been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses. Neither the Old nor New Testament prohibits it, and the early Catholic Church didn't either, though it did for hundreds of year later (with dispensations to get around the ban, though). The main Protestant churches have never banned it.
I wouldn't want that point, though, and the fact that there's no evidence that occasional first-cousin marriages pose a significant risk -- to overshadow the more important point that the custom of marrying first cousins over generations does pose a significant risk. Note this information from Wikipedia: "...a Pakistani immigrant population making up 1.5% of the British population, of whom about 55% marry a first cousin." "The BBC also states that Pakistani-Britons, who account for some 3% of all births in the UK, produce 'just under a third' of all British children with genetic illnesses." [Wikipedia]
And "Although isolated cousin marriages may pose little risk, repeated consanginous marriages within a group are more problematic. After repeated generations of cousin marriage the actual genetic relationship between two people is closer than the most immediate relationship would suggest." [Wikipedia]
That does present a serious problem, and is a liability that needs to be calculated -- along with the other liabilities -- when considering the effects of large-scale Muslim immigration.
Large scale Muslim immigration needs to be stopped, and reversed. Period.
Inbreeding is only part of what makes the Muslim Problem what it is.
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