BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background Despite the intergenerational effects of metabolic disorders, evidence is greatly lacking on early pregnancy metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its effects on pregnancy outcomes from low- and middle-income countries.
Imasha Upulini Jayasinghe +3 more
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Microcephaly and macrocephaly. A study on anthropometric and clinical data from 308 subjects [PDF]
, 2019 Head circumference is the auxological parameter that most correlates with developmental anomalies in childhood. Head circumference (HC) two standard deviations (SD) below or above the mean defines microcephaly and macrocephaly, respectively.
Corsello G. +7 more
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Prenatal exposure to consumer product chemical mixtures and size for gestational age at delivery
Environmental Health, 2021 Background While fetal growth is a tightly regulated process, it is sensitive to environmental exposures that occur during pregnancy. Many commonly used consumer products contain chemicals that can disturb processes underlying fetal growth.
P. A. Bommarito +6 more
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Treatments for women with gestational diabetes mellitus: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews [PDF]
, 2018 Background Successful treatments for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have the potential to improve health outcomes for women with GDM and their babies. Objectives To provide a comprehensive synthesis of evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews of
Alsweiler, Jane +5 more
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Investigation of newborn blood metabolomics in varying intrauterine growth conditions
Jornal de PediatriaObjectives: This study aimed to investigate changes in the blood metabolic profiles of newborns with varying intrauterine growth conditions. Specifically, we analyzed the levels of amino acids, carnitine, and succinylacetone among full-term newborns ...
Shengwen Wang +7 more
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The impact of antenatal psychological group interventions on psychological well-being : a systematic review of the qualitative and quantitative evidence [PDF]
, 2016 Depression, anxiety and stress in the perinatal period can have serious, long-term consequences for women, their babies and their families. Over the last two decades, an increasing number of group interventions with a psychological approach have been ...
Jomeen, Julie +2 more
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Gestational diabetes mellitus- right person, right treatment, right time? [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Personalised treatment that is uniquely tailored to an individual’s phenotype has become a key goal of clinical and pharmaceutical development across many, particularly chronic, diseases.
Lindsay, Robert S. +2 more
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Growth to early adulthood following extremely preterm birth: the EPICure study. [PDF]
, 2020 OBJECTIVE: To investigate growth trajectories from age 2.5 to 19 years in individuals born before 26 weeks of gestation (extremely preterm; EP) compared with term-born controls.
Beckmann, J +5 more
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, 2019 We develop an approach to risk classification based on quantile contours and allometric modelling of multivariate anthropometric measurements. We propose the definition of allometric direction tangent to the directional quantile envelope, which divides ...
Boghossian, Nansi S. +3 more
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Hyperglycaemia and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes: Systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2016 Objectives: To assess the association between maternal glucose concentrations and adverse perinatal outcomes in women without gestational or existing diabetes and to determine whether clear thresholds for identifying women at risk of perinatal outcomes ...
Bryant, M +7 more
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