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Labor and women's nutrition : a study of energy expenditure, fertility, and nutritional status in Ghana [PDF]

Economic approaches to health and nutrition have focused largely on measures of child nutrition and related variables (such as birth weight) as indicators of household production of nutritional outcomes.
DEC, Alderman, Harold, Higgins, Paul A
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Intelligent Nutrition Technologies in Prenatal Support: Digital Nutrition Personalization for Metabolic and Fetal Health in Pregnant Women

Universal Library of Medical and Health Sciences
Against the background of a sustained increase in the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and excessive gestational weight gain (EGWG), the effectiveness of standard population-based dietary recommendations appears to be limited.
A. Shapovalova
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Effects of Participation in the WIC Food Assistance Program on Children’s Health and Development: Evidence from NLSY Children [PDF]

This study investigates the effects of maternal participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth weight, motor and social skills, and temperament for a national sample of children born between ...
G. J. Duncan, L. Kowaleski-Jones
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Physiological Insights into Pregnancy-Associated Bone Metabolism: A Systematic Review of Vitamin D and Parathyroid Hormone Axis

Pakistan journal of medicine and dentistry
Background: During pregnancy, bone metabolism requires a functional interaction between Vitamin D and the Parathyroid Hormone. This investigation examined the clinical and pathological nature of the Vitamin D-PTH pathway in pregnancy-related bone ...

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Noninvasive prenatal testing of trisomies 21 and 18 by massively parallel sequencing of maternal plasma DNA in twin pregnancies

, 2014
Objective The objective of this study is to assess the performance of noninvasive prenatal testing for trisomies 21 and 18 on the basis of massively parallel sequencing of cell-free DNA from maternal plasma in twin pregnancies.
Yi Zhou, Pan, Xiaoyu, Tze Kin Lau, Shi, Shuqiong, Zheng, Jing, Shi, Xiaomei, Weiwei Xie, Qun Fang, Wei Wang, Fuman Jiang, Yuan Wei, Fang Chen, Hui Jiang, Shengpei Chen, Li, Xuchao, Jiang, Fuman, Zhang, Chunlei, Su, Fengxia, Liu, Qiufang, Lau, Tze Kin, Lei, Dongzhu, Wu, Qichang, Xuchao Li, Gao, Ya, Xu, Chenming, Guo, Xiaoling, Yangyu Zhao, Shuqiong Shi, Wang, Wei, Huijuan Ge, Xie, Weiwei, Xiaoyu Pan, Xiaoling Guo, Qichang Wu, Wei, Yuan, Lifu Liu, Ge, Huijuan, Zhang, Hongyun, Fang, Qun, Fengxia Su, Min Chen, Xiaomei Shi, Jiang, Hui, Jing Zheng, Zhao, Yangyu, Qiufang Liu, Chunlei Zhang, Chen, Fang, Ya Gao, Chen, Min, Liu, Lifu, Zhou, Yi, Chenming Xu, Xuan Huang, Dongzhu Lei, Huang, Xuan, Chen, Shengpei, Hongyun Zhang   +57 more
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Anthropometric and Physiological Responses to Prolonged Open Water Rowing: A Case Study [PDF]

, 2003
The objective of the study was to examine the anthropometric and physiological responses to a prolonged period of open water rowing 4950 km. A single male (novice) rower underwent assessment of anthropometric variables, pre- and post-race, for the ...
Dan A. Gordon, Gordon, Dan A.
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Micro-nutrient sufficiency in mothers and babies: management of deficiencies while avoiding overload during pregnancy

Frontiers in Nutrition
Pregnancy is a period characterized by extensive physiological changes in both the mother and fetus. During this period, the nutritional status of the mother has a profound and irreversible impact on her health and the growth and development of the fetus.
Noor Fatima, Sanabil Yaqoob, Laraib Rana, Aysha Imtiaz, M. Iqbal, Z. Bashir, A. Shaukat, Hiba Naveed, Waleed Sultan, Muneeba Afzal, Zara Kashif, Fahad Al‐Asmari, Qing Shen, Yongkun Ma   +13 more
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Prenatal Prediction of Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Chinese

, 2012
[[abstract]]We used linkage analysis, non-isotope SSCP (single-strand conformation polymorphism) and PCR-RFLP (polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism) for prenatal diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
Lin, Shuan-Pei; Chang, Jan-Gowth; Jong, Yuh-Jyh; Yang, Tzu-Yao; Tsai, Chang-Hai; Wang, Nancy M. ; Li, Hung ; Hsieh-Li, Hsieh-Mei; Hu, Cheur-Jong
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Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs: Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions [PDF]

We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement error. We focus on the importance of typically unobserved but theoretically important variables (TUVs), other non-standard covariates ...
Dhaval Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan   +3 more
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Dietary protein energy supplementation of pregnant Asian mothers at Sorrento, Birmingham. II: selective during third trimester only [PDF]

, 1982
Unselective dietary protein energy supplementation of Asian mothers at Sorrento Maternity Hospital did not enhance intrauterine growth. The effect of selective supplementation was therefore studied.
Scott, P.H., Needham, P.G., Wharton, B.A., Eaton, P., Viegas, O.A., Cole, T.J.   +5 more
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