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Conceptualizing pathways linking women’s empowerment and prematurity in developing countries [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Globally, prematurity is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5. Many efforts have focused on clinical approaches to improve the survival of premature babies. There is a need, however, to explore psychosocial, sociocultural,
Patience A. Afulani   +3 more
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Retinopathy of prematurity and its association with neonatal factors [PDF]

open access: yesBangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2017
Retinopathy of prematurity is considered as an important cause of blindness. This prospective study was undertaken to document the frequency and the associated factors of retinopathy of prematurity among 97 preterm newborn weighing
Mohammod Shahidullah   +6 more
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Proteome-wide prediction of bacterial carbohydrate-binding proteins as a tool for understanding commensal and pathogen colonisation of the vaginal microbiome

open access: yesnpj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021
Bacteria use carbohydrate-binding proteins (CBPs), such as lectins and carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs), to anchor to specific sugars on host surfaces.
François Bonnardel    +11 more
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N-glycosylation of cervicovaginal fluid reflects microbial community, immune activity, and pregnancy status

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Human cervicovaginal fluid (CVF) is a complex, functionally important and glycan rich biological fluid, fundamental in mediating physiological events associated with reproductive health. Using a comprehensive glycomic strategy we reveal an extremely rich
Gang Wu   +10 more
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Deep Learning Methods for Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation: Evaluation on Images with Retinopathy of Prematurity [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of 18th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), IEEE, 2020, pp. 131-136, 2023
Automatic blood vessel segmentation from retinal images plays an important role in the diagnosis of many systemic and eye diseases, including retinopathy of prematurity. Current state-of-the-art research in blood vessel segmentation from retinal images is based on convolutional neural networks.
arxiv   +1 more source

Assessment of feasibility and acceptability of family-centered care implemented at a neonatal intensive care unit in India

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2021
Background A family-centered care (FCC) parent participation program that ensures an infant is not separated from parents against their will was developed for the caring of their small or sick newborn at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Delhi ...
Arti Maria   +5 more
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Very Preterm Children Gut Microbiota Comparison at the Neonatal Period of 1 Month and 3.5 Years of Life

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Prematurity is a risk factor for dysbiosis of the gut microbiota due to particular birth conditions and frequent prolonged hospitalization of neonates.
Gaël Toubon   +39 more
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Separation of Maternal and Newborn Care in US Hospitals: A Systemic Threat to Survival, Health and Well-Being

open access: yesHealth Systems & Reform, 2023
Through greater understanding of past social, cultural, economic, political, scientific and technological forces which shaped our current health systems to separate mothers and newborn infants, we can begin to devise effective approaches to reshape these
Kavya I. Anjur, Gary L. Darmstadt
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15-Deoxy-Delta-12,14-prostaglandin J2 modulates pro-labour and pro-inflammatory responses in human myocytes, vaginal and amnion epithelial cells

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2022
BackgroundPrematurity is the leading cause of childhood death under the age of five. The aetiology of preterm birth is multifactorial; however, inflammation and infection are the most common causal factors, supporting a potential role for ...
Zahirrah BM. Rasheed   +15 more
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Direct on-swab metabolic profiling of vaginal microbiome host interactions during pregnancy and preterm birth

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Here, the authors apply DESI-MS, a sample preparation-free, direct on-swab mass spectrometry analytical tool, to profile the cervicovaginal metabolome of two independent cohorts of pregnant women and, combined with matched metataxonomic and immuno ...
Pamela Pruski   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

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