DETERMINE OF THE PREVALENCE OF GENETIC DISORDERS IN REFERRED COUPLES TO SCREENING CENTERS OF KURDISTAN PROVINCE 2016

One of the treatments that impose a great cost on the patients is incurable genetic diseases. Population genetic screening means detecting people with genetic diseases or defective genes. This article aims to determining genetic disorders incidence in referred couples to screening centers of Sanandaj and Ghorva city in Kurdistan province 2016. This article has done with following of the cross sectional and descriptive method and consists 1135 and 319 couples who refer to screening centers of Sansndaj and Ghorve city in 2016.the demographic information forms and disease recorders was distributed among the studied people. After the filling the forms out by people the data inserted in SPSS version 20 and provided the descriptive statistics. The most common genetic abnormalities in Ghorve city such as mental retardation, disorder of audition and limb movement disorder 33/12, 25/97 and 14/94 percent respectively. Mental retardation, limb movement disorder and mortality of the children under 3 years of age with 17/44, 15/03, and 11/87 respectively have a higher incidence in Sanandaj city. Determination of genetic diseases incidence can help to regulation of screening programs and health cares. The prevalence of these diseases in the region indicates to the importance of establish a center based on population. More population studies in order to expansion the preventive procedures and proceedings in the genetic diseases control in the region are required.