BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020 Background This study aims to explore the relationships between pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational weight gain (GWG), rate of GWG during the second and third trimesters (GWGrate) and birth weight among Chinese women.
Yawen Wang +9 more
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Korean reference for full-term birth length by sex: data from the 4th Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES-IV; 2007–2009) [PDF]
Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2019 Purpose The purpose of this study was to construct reference data for birth length of full-term and preterm Korean infants by sex and to define a sex-specific birth length cut-off to identify small for gestational age (SGA).
Ji Hyun Kim +3 more
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Neonatal Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials Are Affected by Clinical Conditions Occurring in Early Prematurity [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose: Cortical auditory evoked potentials may serve as an early indicator of developmental problems in the auditory cortex. The aim of the study was to determine the effect on neonatal cortical auditory processing of clinical conditions occurring in ...
Bisiacchi, Patrizia +5 more
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Gestational Age Assessment with Anthropometric Parameters in Newborns
Oman Medical Journal, 2018 Objectives: We sought to evaluate the relationship between gestational age (GA) and neonatal anthropometric parameters, namely head circumference (HC) and crown-heel length (CHL).
Niloy Kumar Das1, +4 more
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Introduction: Zinc deficiency is very much prevalent among pregnant women in developing countries. Zinc is required to maintain normal structure and function of multiple enzymes including those that are involved in foetal growth.
Nishu Gupta +3 more
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Transgenerational transmission of small‐for‐gestational age [PDF]
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2019 ABSTRACTObjectiveTo evaluate the transgenerational transmission of small‐for‐gestational age (SGA).MethodsThis was a cohort study of a random sample of 2043 offspring delivered between 1975 and 1993 at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona. Exclusion criteria were multiple pregnancy, aneuploidy or genetic syndrome, major birth defects, severe mental ...
Francesca Crovetto +8 more
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Uterine Gangrene and Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction in a Teenager Following Unsafe Abortion [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019 Unsafe abortion often leads to complications since it is carried out by untrained persons in an unsafe environment. The most common complications are anaemia, bowel injury, bladder injury, uterine perforation, and sepsis.
Anthony Jude Edeh +4 more
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Perceived stress and emotional social support among women who are denied or receive abortions in the United States: a prospective cohort study. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundExamining women's stress and social support following denial and receipt of abortion furthers understanding of the effects of unwanted childbearing and abortion on women's well-being.
Biggs, M Antonia +4 more
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The Effect of Cognitive-Behavioural Counselling on Pregnant Women’s Weight Gain during Pregnancy: A Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019 Introduction: Weight gain during pregnancy has a close relationship with fetomaternal health. An increase in BMI is associated with the risk of premature rupture of membrane, placental abruption and stillbirth.
Mahnaz Farhodimoghadam +3 more
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A possible new approach in the prediction of late gestational hypertension: The role of the fetal aortic intima-media thickness [PDF]
, 2017 The aim was to determine the predictive role of combined screening for late-onset gestational hypertension by fetal ultrasound measurements, third trimester uterine arteries (UtAs) Doppler imaging, and maternal history.
Camerin, Martina +4 more
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