Premature Birth and Age at Onset of Puberty
Premature birth is associated with poor metabolic health in both sexes, potentially via earlier pubertal timing.We examined the associations of gestational age and premature birth (< 37 weeks gestation) with age at onset of puberty (Tanner stage II for breast or genitalia development).
Lam, TH +3 more
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Association between atmospheric particulate matter pollution during pregnancy and premature birth in China: a meta-analysis [PDF]
Xinye Jiang
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Abnormal cortical development after premature birth shown by altered allometric scaling of brain growth. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: We postulated that during ontogenesis cortical surface area and cerebral volume are related by a scaling law whose exponent gives a quantitative measure of cortical development.
Ajayi-Obe, M. +59 more
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Adolescent conduct problems and premature mortality: follow-up to age 65 years in a national birth cohort. [PDF]
Severe youth antisocial behaviour has been associated with increased risk of premature mortality in high-risk samples for many years, and some evidence now points to similar effects in representative samples.
Maughan, B.; id_orcid +7 more
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Offspring birth weight, gestational age and maternal characteristics in relation to glucose status at age 53 years: evidence from a national birth cohort. [PDF]
AIMS: We investigated pathways linking offspring birth weight to maternal diabetes risk in later life by taking into account a range of prospective early-life and adult maternal factors.
Mishra, G. D. +16 more
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Perinatal risk of premature birth: New obstetric opportunities [PDF]
Premature birth (PВ) is a complex medical and social problem associated with solving problems to improve the quality of subsequent life of children born prematurely and associated material and economic costs. The severity of complications associated with
Nilufar Akhtamova +2 more
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Neonatologie/Pädiatrie – Leitlinie Parenterale Ernährung, Kapitel 13 [PDF]
There are special challenges in implementing parenteral nutrition (PN) in paediatric patients, which arises from the wide range of patients, ranging from extremely premature infants up to teenagers weighing up to and over 100 kg, and their varying ...
Jochum, F. +25 more
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Effects of gestational age at birth on cognitive performance : a function of cognitive workload demands [PDF]
Objective: Cognitive deficits have been inconsistently described for late or moderately preterm children but are consistently found in very preterm children.
Jaekel, Julia +11 more
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Pathways of the determinants of unfavourable birth outcomes in Kenya [PDF]
This paper explores the pathways of the determinants of unfavourable birth outcomes, such as premature birth, the size of the baby at birth, and Caesarean section deliveries in Kenya, using graphical loglinear chain models. The results show that a number
Diamond, Ian +3 more
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Premature Birth and Peripartal Outcome
The World Health Organization defines premature birth as a birth that occurs ≥22- 37weeks based on gestational age, or less than 259 days from the first day of the last menstrual cycle. 8-10% of pregnancies result in premature birth.
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