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Maternal Age and Child Development [PDF]
Demography, 2018 Abstract Although the consequences of teen births for both mothers and children have been studied for decades, few studies have taken a broader look at the potential payoffs—and drawbacks—of being born to older mothers. A broader examination is important given the growing gap in maternal ages at birth for children born to mothers with ...
Duncan, Greg J +3 more
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Age and Maternal Mortality in Japan: Increased Maternal Mortality in Advanced Maternal Age
, 2023 Abstract Objectives: This study aimed to clarify the relationship between maternal mortality and advanced maternal age in Japan and to provide useful information for future perinatal management. Methods: Maternal death rates by age group were investigated for all maternal deaths in Japan for an 11-year period, from 2010 to 2021. Maternal deaths
Hiroaki Tanaka +11 more
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Trends in epidemiology of hyperglycemia in pregnancy in Taiwan, 2008-2017
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 BackgroundHyperglycemia in pregnancy (HIP) increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The increasing prevalence of overweight or obesity and the increasing proportion of pregnant women with advanced maternal age (AMA) in the recent decade may ...
Shin-Yu Lin +11 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 Older pregnant women have increased risks of complications including gestational diabetes and stillbirth. Carnitine palmitoyl transferase (CPT) expression declines with age in several tissues and is linked with poorer metabolic health. Mitochondrial CPTs
Hannah E. J. Yong +19 more
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Maternal risk factors associated with term low birth weight in India: A review
Anthropological Review, 2023 Low birth weight is one of the leading factors for infant morbidity and mortality. To a large extent affect, various maternal risk factors are associated with pregnancy outcomes by increasing odds of delivering an infant with low birth weight.
Harsh Vats +4 more
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Why is “early childhood intensive care” an Italian association of neonatology study group?
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2019 To date, a large number of children are hospitalized inappropriately in adult intensive care units, where the minimum standards of care are not applied to young patients. It is well-known that the child is not a small adult.
Nicola Pozzi +3 more
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Children, 2023 Home environments of infants exposed to poverty exhibit fewer affordances for child development. This study aimed to investigate the association between contextual factors and affordances in the home environments of infants facing poverty.
Carolina Fioroni Ribeiro da Silva +4 more
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Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences, 2022 Background: In patients undergoing assisted reproduction, levels of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the trophectodermal cells of the developing blastocyst are suggested to be associated with its ability to implant. However, discrepancies exist regarding the
G Ritu +6 more
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Maternal Age and Infant Health
, 2021 We study the effects of maternal age on infant health. Age at birth has been increasing for the past several decades in many countries, and correlations show that health at birth is worse for children born to older mothers. In order to identify causal effects, we exploit school entry cutoffs and the empirical finding that women who are older for their ...
Borra, Cristina +2 more
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Effect of age of gravida on post-cesarean section pain: An observational study
Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care, 2023 Objective: Preoperative identification of women at greater risk of post-cesarean pain might allow more intensive analgesic interventions. This study aimed to assess the effect of age of a parturient on post-cesarean section (CS) pain.
Mohammad Kasim +6 more
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