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Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey [PDF]

We examine the impact of three "criteria" air pollutants on infant health in New Jersey in the 1990s by combining information about mother's residential location from birth certificates with information from air quality monitors.
Janet Currie, Johannes Schmieder, Matthew J. Neidell   +2 more
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Phenotype Expansion of Malan Syndrome: New Cases and a Review of the Literature

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Malan syndrome is an ultra‐rare overgrowth syndrome caused by pathogenic variants or deletions in nuclear factor one X (NFIX) located at 19p13.2. Here, we report a comprehensive literature review and phenotyping of known patients with Malan syndrome and present a novel cohort of eight patients.
Alex F. Nisbet, Sylvie A. Adams, Zoe S. Katz, Christal G. Delagrammatikas, Kosuke Izumi, Winifred Sigal, Kim Ventarola, Elaine H. Zackai, Julia E. Reid, Grant T. Liu, Jennifer M. Kalish   +10 more
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Evaluation of possible associated factors for early childhood caries: are preterm birth and birth weight related?

BMC Oral Health
Background This study aimed to evaluate the oral and dental health of preschool children aged 12–71 months living in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, and to examine the effects of low birth weight (LBW) and preterm, early term and term birth on ...
Merve Bilmez Selen, Pınar Demir, Feyza Inceoglu   +2 more
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Factors associated with weight Z-score in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight preterm infants during hospitalization

Jornal de Pediatria
Objective: To investigate the behavior of weight-for-age z-score (WAZ) and associated factors in preterm newborns (PTNB) with very low birth weight (VLBW) and extremely low birth weight (ELBW), comparing them to low birth weight (LBW) during four weeks ...
Eduarda Couto Plácido Nunes, Eduarda Silva, Eduarda Dallmann Lopes Pereira, Karla Pereira Machado, Sandra Costa Valle   +4 more
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Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health [PDF]

We estimate the effect of illicit drug use during pregnancy on low birth weight. We use data from a national longitudinal study of urban parents that includes post-partum interviews with mothers, hospital medical record data on the mother and newborn ...
Dhaval Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan   +3 more
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‘Kangaroo mother care’ to prevent neonatal deaths due to pre-term birth complications. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: 'Kangaroo mother care' (KMC) includes thermal care through continuous skin-to-skin contact, support for exclusive breastfeeding or other appropriate feeding, and early recognition/response to illness. Whilst increasingly accepted in both high-
J. Mwansa-Kambafwile, Cousens, Simon, Mwansa-Kambafwile, Judith, Lawn, Joy E, J. E. Lawn, S. Cousens, Barros, Fernando C, B. L. Horta, Horta, Bernando L, F. C. Barros, Horta, Bernardo L   +10 more
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Resolution of Refractory Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia in Costello Syndrome Using Trametinib: A Case Supporting MEK Inhibitors as Targeted, Specific Antiarrhythmic

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arrhythmias affect approximately half of patients with Costello syndrome (CS, OMIM # 218040), with non‐reentrant atrial tachycardia being the most common. This case describes an infant with Costello syndrome carrying the pathogenic HRAS c.34G>A (p.G12S) variant who developed early‐onset, drug‐refractory multifocal atrial tachycardia (MAT ...
Vanina Taliercio, Annabelle Wilcox, Stacey Cole, Josue Flores Daboub, José E. Morales Moreno, Kasey G. Andrews, S. Yukiko Asaki, Thomas A. Pilcher, Martin Tristani‐Firouzi, Mary C. Niu, David Viskochil, Benjamin Hammond   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between maternal periodontal disease and preterm delivery and low birth weight

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2013
Objective: It has been suggested that periodontal disease is an important risk factor for preterm low birth weight (PLBW). The purpose of this study was to determine the association of maternal periodontitis with low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (
Yen-Li Wang, Jui-Der Liou, Whei-Lin Pan
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A cohort study of psychological sequalae in low birth weight children from the Bishop Lavis Community Health Centre

, 2007
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-90).The relationship between low birth weight, behavioural inhibition and psychopathology was investigated in 65 seven to nine year-olds and their caregivers who were attendees of a community clinic in a low-
Micklewood, Neil Ryan
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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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