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Mother's education and birth weight [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy.
Arnaud Chevalier, Vincent O'Sullivan
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A new birth weight chart and optimal birth weight percentiles for predicting infant mortality [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPrescriptive BW charts can facilitate discrimination between normal and abnormal birthweight. This study aimed to develop a prescriptive BW chart specific to Asian populations and assess its utility in predicting infant mortality.
Jui-Chun Chang +7 more
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Birth Weight in the Long-Run [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes using data on Swedish twins born between 1926 and 1958 linked to administrative records spanning entire life-time labor market histories.
Prashant Bharadwaj +2 more
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Birth weight in live births and stillbirths
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2016 ABSTRACTObjectiveTo establish a normal range of birth weights for gestational age at delivery and to compare the proportion of live births and stillbirths that are classified as small‐for‐gestational age (SGA) according to our normal range vs that of the INTERGROWTH‐21st standard.MethodsThe study population comprised 113 019 live births and 437 (0.4 ...
Kypros H. Nicolaides +5 more
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Birth Weights of South African Babies: (II.) Effect of Birth Rank on Birth Weight [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1951 Eva J. Salber, E Bradshaw
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The Costs of Low Birth Weight [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005 Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health policy. This is because low birth weight (LBW) infants experience severe health and developmental difficulties that can impose enormous ...
David S. Lee +2 more
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Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in south China [PDF]
Social Science Research, February, 102691 (2022), 2022 This paper investigates whether associations between birth weight and prenatal ambient environmental conditions--pollution and extreme temperatures--differ by 1) maternal education; 2) children's innate health; and 3) interactions between these two. We link birth records from Guangzhou, China, during a period of high pollution, to ambient air pollution
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JAMA Network Open, 2020 This systematic review summarizes the association of climate change, including heat, ozone, and fine particulate matter, with adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth, in the US.
Bruce Bekkar +3 more
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British medical journal, 2020 Objective To assess whether exposure to high temperatures in pregnancy is associated with increased risk for preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth. Design Systematic review and random effects meta-analysis.
M. Chersich +10 more
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