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Birth weight and sibship size

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1972
It seems that women whose first-born children are very heavy (9 lb and more) or very light (less than 5 1b) have more subsequent children than other women. This finding does not appear to arise from any of the possible artifacts discussed, and it could have some bearing on the present secular increase in the height and weight of the population.
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Modelling of Reference Values for Size at Birth

Acta Paediatrica, 1989
ABSTRACT. Data from the Swedish Medical Birth Registration, 1977–1981 were used to apply methods of constructing reference standards for size at birth. Using clinical information a ‘healthy’ sub‐population was extracted. The conditional distributions of birthweight (BW) and birth‐length (BL) for each week of Gestational age, and the conditional ...
C, Lawrence   +4 more
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Determinants of birth size in Northeast Spain

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2013
To update knowledge on determinants of newborn body size in Northeast of Spain considering gestational, parental and socio-cultural variables.Cross-sectional assessment of 1442 infants from Aragón (Spain), born at term between March 2009 and March 2010.
L, Escartín   +8 more
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SIZE AT BIRTH IN AN INNER-CITY POPULATION

American Journal of Perinatology, 1999
Recent comparisons of growth curves and incidence of low birth weight are available for Caucasians and African-Americans or Hispanics. To compare size at birth in Hispanics with African-Americans in an inner-city population, we analyzed data on mother-infant pairs admitted to Jacobi Medical Center from January 1, 1995 until May 31, 1997 and those with ...
C, Cazano, B K, Russell, L P, Brion
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Birth size and the risk of cerebral palsy in term births

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2013
This commentary is on the original article by Dahlseng et al. on pages 53–58 of this issue.
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Birth size of Australian Aboriginal babies

Medical Journal of Australia, 1993
(i) To describe birth size of Aboriginal babies by sex, gestational age, and Aboriginality; (ii) to analyse the results with reference to standards of ponderal index and birthweight for gestational age.570 liveborn singletons routinely delivered at Royal Darwin Hospital between January 1987 and March 1991, and recorded in the Delivery Suite Register as
S M, Sayers, J R, Powers
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Birth Order, Family Size, and Schizophrenia

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1967
THE RELATIONSHIP of birth order to schizophrenia has been controversial. A few investigators of birth position in schizophrenic patients have reported increased numbers of cases who were firstborn or in the first half of the sibship,1-3whereas others found a preponderance of cases who were lastborn or in the second half of the sibship.4-7Several ...
H, Barry, H, Barry
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Otitis Media with Effusion and Size at Birth

British Journal of Audiology, 1998
To investigate whether recurrent or persistent otitis media with effusion (OME) was associated with particular patterns of fetal growth, we conducted a case control study of 129 children admitted for insertion of grommets and 150 controls. The risk of OME was not statistically significantly related to gestational age or individual measures of size at ...
P M, Clark   +3 more
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Determinants of size at birth in a Canadian population

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1984
Anthropometric, medical, and sociodemographic characteristics and smoking habit of a random sample of postpartum women in a Canadian population were determined. These characteristics were analyzed in relation to the birth size of their babies. With controls for gestational age and fetal sex, the following maternal variables were positively correlated ...
G D, Anderson   +3 more
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Sibship Size, Birth Order, and Personality

Psychological Reports, 2005
In a sample of 273 American college students who were administered seven personality tests, only death obsession scores were consistently associated with sibship size and birth order (not optimism, pessimism, anxiety, a Taoist orientation, suicidal ideation, or obsessive-compulsive tendencies).
Ahmed, Abdel-Khalek, David, Lester
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