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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. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could have large returns.
Chevalier, Arnaud, O'Sullivan, Vincent
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Relation of Birth Weight with Maternal Pre-pregnancy Weight and Weight Gain during Pregnancy [PDF]
Indian Journal of Neonatal Medicine and Research, 2018 Introduction: Birth weight is an important factor which determines the outcome in neonate and also affects the chances of survival. There is a need to identify the modifiable factors which can impact the birth weight. Aim: To evaluate the relation of
Sunil Gavhane +2 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020 Purpose: The aim was to investigate the associations between maternal thyroid parameters within the normal ranges during early pregnancy and birth outcomes, and further to examine whether the associations were modified by gestational weight gain (GWG ...
Bin Zhou +4 more
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Analysis of neonatal mortality:is standardizing for relative birth weight biased?
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2004 Background Infant mortality has traditionally been analyzed as a function of birth weight and birth weight-specific mortality. Often, however, when comparing two populations, the population with higher overall mortality has lower mortality at low birth ...
Kramer Michael S +2 more
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Nature Genetics, 2018 Birth weight variation is influenced by fetal and maternal genetic and non-genetic factors, and has been reproducibly associated with future cardio-metabolic health outcomes.
N. Warrington +255 more
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Birth outcomes for African and Caribbean babies in England and Wales: retrospective analysis of routinely collected data [PDF]
, 2012 Objectives: To compare mean birth weights, gestational ages and odds of preterm birth and low birth weight of live singleton babies of black African or Caribbean ethnicity born in 2005 or 2006 by mother's country of birth.
Datta-Nemdharry, P. +2 more
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Associations of Maternal Diabetes and Body Mass Index With Offspring Birth Weight and Prematurity
JAMA pediatrics, 2019 Importance Maternal obesity, pregestational type 1 diabetes, and gestational diabetes have been reported to increase the risks for large birth weight and preterm birth in offspring.
Linghua Kong +3 more
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Micronutrient Intake and Fundal Height Determine Birth Weight [PDF]
, 2019 The birth weight (BW) are utilized as indicators of the healthy and term newborns. Factor that affects the weight of a newborn are micronutrient intake and fundal height. Folic acid and iron (Fe) were associated with newborn birth weight.
Aghadiati, F. (Faradina) +2 more
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Birth weight of twins: 2. Fetal genetic effect on birth weight
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 1998 Intraclass correlation coefficients were calculated for the birth weights of twins born at three southeastern Brazilian hospitals, after adjustment of the natural logarithms of these weights for gestational age, its quadratic and cubic terms, sex, and ...
Bernardo Beiguelman +3 more
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Influence of the Urban Exposome on Birth Weight
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2019 Background: The exposome is defined as the totality of environmental exposures from conception onwards. It calls for providing a holistic view of environmental exposures and their effects on human health by evaluating multiple environmental exposures ...
M. Nieuwenhuijsen +26 more
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