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The Problem of Low Birth Weight
The Future of Children, 1995Low birth weight is a major public health problem in the United States, contributing substantially both to infant mortality and to childhood handicap. The principal determinant of low birth weight in the United States is preterm delivery, a phenomenon of largely unknown etiology.
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Low Birth Weight Across Generations
Obstetric Anesthesia Digest, 1984The relationship between maternal birth weight and infant birth weight was studied in the Buffalo cohort of the Collaborative Perinatal Project (n = 1,348). Regression techniques were used to control for confounders. Compared with infants of mothers who had weighed 8 lb or more at birth, infants of mothers who had weighed 6 to 7.9 lb, 4 to 5.9 lb, and ...
Heinz W. Berendes +3 more
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1979
The normal newborn tends to weigh much less in developing countries compared with his counterpart in Western Europe. Thus, in Nigeria the average birth weight is reported as 3,090 g and in Gambia it is 2,835 g. In the same country there may be significant differences in birth weights in different regions depending upon the general standards of health ...
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The normal newborn tends to weigh much less in developing countries compared with his counterpart in Western Europe. Thus, in Nigeria the average birth weight is reported as 3,090 g and in Gambia it is 2,835 g. In the same country there may be significant differences in birth weights in different regions depending upon the general standards of health ...
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CORRELATES OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT
Child: Care, Health and Development, 1980Summary In order to provide a base line for long term follow‐up, the background, methodology and major conclusions of a prospective study of low birth weight infants (≤2500 g) and their matched controls (> 2500 g) were studied and the results presented.
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The Low-Birth-Weight Infant [PDF]
, 1978 Low-birth-weight infants (< 2500 g) may result from pregnancies terminating before the completion of a normal gestational period (preterm infant) or from pregnancies during which the rate of intrauterine growth is abnormally slow, regardless of the duration of the gestation (SGA or small-for-gestational-age infant).
Michael A. Simmons +1 more
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The Placenta and Low Birth Weight
1979In recent years the child with low birth weight (LBW) with or without signs of intrauterine malnutrition has attracted much attention. The condition has human as well as economic aspects since it scores high in perinatal deaths and brain damage Potter and Davies, 1969; Fitzhardinge and Steven, 1912;Bjerre and Ostberg, 1974).
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Glutamine supplementation for low-birth-weight and very low-birth-weight infants.
Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui za zhi [Journal]. Zhonghua Minguo xiao er ke yi xue hui, 1998Glutamine is a conditionally essential amino acid for low-birth-weight (LBW) and very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants by virtue of its ability to serve as a primary respiratory fuel for proliferating cells, a carrier of nitrogen between tissues, maintain acid-base balance, promote the growth and integrity of the gastrointestinal tract and promote ...
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Low Birth Weight and Household Structure
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 1989Data collected during postnatal visits were used to study the risk of low birth weight (LBW) among unmarried women living alone and among unmarried women living with a partner or another adult, using married women living with their husbands as the reference group.
Mona Baumgarten +2 more
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Anthropometric Indicators of Low Birth Weight
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 1985This study ia aimed to develop indicators of low birth weight in the newborn for use in communities where babies are usually delivered at home and where scales to weigh newborns are not available. For this purpose head arm chest thigh and calf circumferences triceps and subscapular skinfolds weight and length were determined in 1000 newborns during ...
Aaron Lechtig +2 more
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Low birth weight and hyperemesis gravidarum
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 1988A group of patients suffering from severe hyperemesis gravidarum is defined. In contrast to what is reported in the literature, these women gave birth to babies with lower birth weight when compared to the hospital population and also to women who had a milder degree of hyperemesis gravidarum.
R.K.H. Chin, Terence T. Lao
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