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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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A principal components approach to parent-to-newborn body composition associations in South India [PDF]
Background: size at birth is influenced by environmental factors, like maternal nutrition and parity, and by genes. Birth weight is a composite measure, encompassing bone, fat and lean mass. These may have different determinants. The main purpose of this
Fall, CHD +19 more
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ABSTRACT Objective To assess temporal trends in outcomes of pregnancies with maternal or paternal type 1 diabetes compared to the general population. Design Register‐based study. Setting Denmark. Population 1 551 893 pregnancies from 1997 to 2021, hereof 5478 with maternal and 8072 with paternal type 1 diabetes.
Tina Wullum Gundersen +12 more
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Sex and fetal genome influence gene expression in pig endometrium at the end of gestation
Background A fine balance of feto-maternal resource allocation is required to support pregnancy, which depends on interactions between maternal and fetal genetic potential, maternal nutrition and environment, endometrial and placental functions.
Agnes Bonnet +7 more
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THE MATERNAL‐FETAL NITROGEN EXCHANGE IN THE GOAT [PDF]
I, SETNIKAR, D H, BARRON
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Fetal liver blood flow distribution: role in human developmental strategy to prioritize fat deposition versus brain development [PDF]
Among primates, human neonates have the largest brains but also the highest proportion of body fat. If placental nutrient supply is limited, the fetus faces a dilemma: should resources be allocated to brain growth, or to fat deposition for use as a ...
Crozier, SR +57 more
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Health impacts of public pawnshops in Industrialising Tokyo
Abstract This study examines whether expanded credit access through low‐interest small loans relaxed liquidity constraints among poor households and improved early‐life health in industrialising Tokyo. Using ward‐level panel data for 1927–1935, this study shows that public pawnshop lending was associated with 4% and 5% reductions in infant and foetal ...
Tatsuki Inoue
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The placenta is a dynamic, embryo-derived organ essential for fetal growth and development. While all eutherian mammals have placentas composed of fetal-derived trophoblasts that mediate maternal-fetal exchange, their anatomical and histological ...
Cole R McCutcheon +5 more
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Understanding the effects of obstetrical ultrasound [PDF]
Plan BUltrasound has revolutionized the practice of obstetrics and significantly influenced the way society regards the fetus in utero. This study views the value of the obstetrical ultrasound in terms of human phenomenon.
Durbin, Sharon A.
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Assessment of nitrite oxide and maternal–fetal Doppler parameters during pregnancy
Objective: The objective was to evaluate and compare the whole blood nitrite concentration in the three trimesters of pregnancy. Additionally, we investigate whether there is any relation between nitrite concentrations and Doppler ultrasound analysis of ...
Duarte, Geraldo +10 more
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