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Birth weight and prematurity in Tanzania
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1966The importance of birth weight as an index of nutritional status is discussed. The birth weights of 7528 singleton live births from 3 hospitals in Tanzania are reported. The overall mean weight for males was 6 lb. 1012 oz. and for females 6 lb. 634 oz.
M.C Latham, J.R.K Robson
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Birth dimensions of offspring, premature birth, and the mortality of mothers [PDF]
The Lancet, 2000 A person's birthweight is inversely related to their cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk, and preliminary data suggest that the birthweights of offspring are also inversely related to parental CVD mortality risk. In a cohort of pregnant Finnish women, we assessed the relation between birth dimensions of the offspring and maternal ...
George Davey Smith +3 more
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Clinics in Perinatology, 1980
With six different groups of pharmacologic agents that potentially can inhibit undesirable uterine contractions, prevention of premature births should be increasingly successful. The rationale for the use of each of these agents and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
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With six different groups of pharmacologic agents that potentially can inhibit undesirable uterine contractions, prevention of premature births should be increasingly successful. The rationale for the use of each of these agents and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
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ANESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS IN PREMATURE BIRTH
International Anesthesiology Clinics, 1990Premature birth still accounts for about 75% of perinatal mortality. Although great strides have been made in the care of premature babies over the past two decades, markedly decreasing mortality, the prevention of premature birth has not been greatly improved.
Philip Samuels, Brett B. Gutsche
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Thermal management for premature births
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2005Aim. This paper reports an audit of the effect on admission temperatures of using occlusive polyethylene wrap applied immediately after the birth of extremely premature infants.Background. Use of occlusive polyethylene wrap during the early postnatal management of the premature infant reduces evaporative and convective heat loss.Method ...
Michele Wallace +2 more
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Perspectives in the prevention of premature birth
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 2004Obstetric and neonatal interventions have improved the survival of preterm infants, but there has not been an equivalent reduction in long-term neurological disability. Thus, some effort must be invested in finding ways of preventing preterm birth. Numerous programmes have been promoted to address the matter of how the frequency of preterm birth could ...
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Overlap of premature birth and permissible abortion [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2009 Abortion is permitted in many jurisdictions after the age at which an infant is viable on the basis of intensive neonatal care techniques. Does this cause special concerns for those involved in perinatal care and termination of pregnancy services or is the overlap mainly an abstract issue fretted over by ethicists and academics?
Brian A Darlow, Grant Gillett, O Collyns
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Premature Children with Birth Asphyxia
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1964SUMMARYThis paper reports on 41 premature children who showed signs of birth asphyxia and their matched controls, followed up over 10–12 years and investigated clinically, by EEG'S, by school reports and by psychological tests. Results of all these examinations show no statistically significant differences between the children and their controls, but ...
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Premature Birth and Age at Onset of Puberty
Epidemiology, 2012Premature 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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Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1940
To the Editor: —In the September issue of your journal there is an article about causes of prematurity (Anderson, N. A., and Lyon, R. A.: Causes of Prematurity A Review of the Literature, Am. J. Dis. Child. 58:586 [Sept.] 1939). In 1928 I wrote a thesis on premature children (Keizer, D. P.
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To the Editor: —In the September issue of your journal there is an article about causes of prematurity (Anderson, N. A., and Lyon, R. A.: Causes of Prematurity A Review of the Literature, Am. J. Dis. Child. 58:586 [Sept.] 1939). In 1928 I wrote a thesis on premature children (Keizer, D. P.
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