• Ahkam Göksel Kanmaz, Abdurrahman Hamdi İnan, Emrah Beyan, Su Özgür, and Adnan Budak.
• Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tepecik Training and Research Hospital Izmir, Turkey.
• Arch Iran Med. 2019 Sep 1; 22 (9): 482488482-488.

BackgroundTo present the differences in prenatal, labor and neonatal outcomes for Syrian refugees and Turkish citizens.MethodsBetween January 2013 and December 2016, all patients in our hospital were screened retrospectively. Totally, 17000 pregnant women included in the study were divided into three groups: group 1: 4802 pregnant in Syrian refugees group; group 2: 6752 pregnant in the low-income Turkish citizens (LI groups); and group 3: 5446 women in high-income Turkish citizens (HI groups). The groups were compared for demographic parameters, prenatal, labor and postnatal results.ResultsAge, gestational week, birth weights, antenatal follow-up, antenatal iron supplementation and prenatal hemoglobin (Hb) values were significantly lower in the Syrian refugee group (P < 0.001). Only moderate preterm delivery and moderate low birth weight were higher in the refugee group (P = 0.023 and P = 0.001). Stillbirth rates were similar in all three groups (P = 0.203), but all other neonatal complications were higher in the Turkish citizens group.ConclusionIn comparison to non-refugee control patients, adverse perinatal outcomes were not observed in pregnant refugees. The refugee health policies of the Republic of Turkey seem to be working. However, further larger multicenter studies may provide more convincing data about obstetric outcomes and health results in the Syrian refugee population.© 2019 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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