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Midwifery basics. Infant feeding: Breastfeeding premature babies [PDF]
, 2013 ‘Infant feeding’ is the twelfth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on women’s experience and encourage midwives to
Marshall, Joyce
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biallelic variants in NSMCE2 (MMS21), which encodes the SUMO E3 ligase subunit of the SMC5/6 chromatin‐maintenance complex, have recently been implicated in microcephalic primordial dwarfism (MPD), corresponding to Seckel syndrome type 10 (OMIM #617246).
Cristina Peduto +5 more
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Can mothers judge the size of their newborn? Assessing the determinants of a mother's perception of a baby's size at birth [PDF]
, 2011 Birth weight is known to be closely related to child health, although as many infants in developing countries are not weighed at birth and thus will not have a recorded birth weight it is difficult to use birth weight when analysing child illness.
Channon, Andrew, ANDREW A. R. CHANNON
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Severe Headbanging Responsive to Levodopa in a Child With FOXP1 Syndrome
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We report a 9‐year‐old female with FOXP1 syndrome due to a de novo in‐frame deletion in the FOXP1 gene. The child has a severe neurodevelopmental disorder including global developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder. At age 2, she developed severe headbanging, which was progressive and did not respond to multidisciplinary, behavioral ...
Pamela Veale +2 more
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Biology as Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight [PDF]
Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the transfer of economic status between generations. This paper addresses the question of whether inter-generational correlations in health contribute to the perpetuation of economic status.
Janet Currie, Enrico Moretti
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Biallelic PAX6 Variants in an Adult With Severe Microphthalmia and Preserved Intellectual Function
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT PAX6 encodes a dosage‐sensitive transcription factor that is essential for eye development. Heterozygous PAX6 disease is well characterized, but biallelic disease is extremely rare and has been associated with anophthalmia, severe brain malformations, and perinatal lethality.
Karl De Geer +4 more
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Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970 [PDF]
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in ...
Melissa A. Thomasson, William J. Collins
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Van Maldergem syndrome (VMLDS) is an ultra‐rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by craniofacial dysmorphism, intellectual disability, hypotonia, skeletal anomalies, and feeding difficulties. It is caused by biallelic variants in DCHS1 or FAT4 genes.
Gabriela Roldão Correia‐Costa +4 more
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Risk factors of children's low birth weight and infant mortality in Bangladesh: Evidence from binary logistic regression and Cox PH models [PDF]
Background Low birth weight is recognized as a pivotal risk factor affecting child survival and growth. Although Bangladesh has made commendable progress in public health, an infant mortality rate of 38 per 1000 live births and a 16% prevalence of low ...
Rahman, Zubaidur +3 more
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Preterm Birth of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
, 2012 Approximately 13% of births in the United States are preterm, defined as occurring before 37 weeks of gestation. This results in more than 540,000 infants a year born prematurely. In other words, one out of every 8 infants is born premature. Even more disturbing is that despite advances in neonatal and perinatal medicine, the incidence of prematurity ...
Jonathan Muraskas +3 more
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