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Birth weight in children with birth defects

Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 2011
Birth defects (BDs) are a serious public health problem in Mexico. The objective of this paper was to identify the frequency of newborns (NBs) that are born small for gestational age with a birth defect.A cross-sectional study of NBs from hospitals part of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in Chihuahua, Mexico, was conducted. NBs were classified
Sonia, Montes-Núñez   +5 more
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Independent effect of maternal birth weight on infant birth weight

jpme, 1996
The relationship between the birth weights of the mother and her infant was evaluated in a sample of 106 women consecutively delivered of a single live birth. Women were included in the study if their birth weight was available in hospital files or from another reliable source. Women that were themselves a twin or had diseases complicated the course of
M, Tavares   +4 more
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Prepregnancy weight, weight gain, and birth weight

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1986
The effect of maternal weight gain on birth weight in 2946 live births with delivery after 37 weeks' gestation was studied at Moffitt Hospital, University of California (San Francisco), between September, 1980, and December, 1983. The sample was stratified into four categories according to prepregnancy weight for height with use of a body mass index ...
B F, Abrams, R K, Laros
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INFANTS OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1966
MANY infants who are small at birth have simply not remained in the uterus long enough to achieve expected size. In such cases it is assumed that maternofetal relations have been normal until the occurrence of an event or the development of an (acute) state resulting in the early delivery of an infant whose overall size, body composition and functional
W A, Silverman, J C, Sinclair
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Altitude and birth weight

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1987
The effect of altitude on birth weight was measured with data in U.S. natality records from 1978 to 1981 after correlation with the mean altitude of the mother's resident county. For comparison of the low birth weight (LBW) rate at different altitudes, certain socioeconomic risk factors known to affect birth weight were controlled by the selection of ...
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The determinants of birth weight

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1982
Presented are the results of multivariate regression analysis of the variations in birth weight of term babies associated with the socioeconomic, physical, and medical factors recorded in obstetric case notes at a London teaching hospital. The results show that the sex of the baby, parity, maternal smoking during the pregnancy, maternal height, weight,
C R, Dougherty, A D, Jones
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LOW BIRTH WEIGHT

Pediatrics, 1963
SINCE THE First World Health Assembly in 1948, the international definition of prematurity based on birth weight (≤ 2500 gm) has been used widely and successfully for purposes of vital statistics concerning newborn infants. This definition is objective and subject to standardization in contrast to a classification based on estimates of gestational age ...
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Birth Weight is Forever

Epidemiology, 2008
Birth weight is associated not just with infant morbidity and mortality, but with outcomes occurring much later in life, including adult mortality, as reported by a paper by Baker and colleagues in this issue of Epidemiology. While these associations are tantalizing per se, the truly interesting question concerns the mechanisms that underlie these ...
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BIRTH WEIGHT IN COUSINS

Annals of Human Genetics, 1955
SummaryThere is a significant positive correlation between the birth weights of maternal first cousins, but not between other first cousins. This is interpreted as evidence for the existence of a maternal genetic factor in the determination of birth weight.
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Breastfeeding Trends Among Very Low Birth Weight, Low Birth Weight, and Normal Birth Weight Infants

The Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
To examine the change in breastfeeding behaviors over time, among low birth weight (LBW), very low birth weight (VLBW), and normal birth weight (NBW) infants using nationally representative US data.Univariate statistics and bivariate logistic models were examined using the Early Child Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (2001) and National Study of ...
Angela G. Campbell, Patricia Y. Miranda
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