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Hypertension in Pregnancy and Size at Birth

Blood Pressure, 1996
Low birth weight and high placental weight are associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Children born after hypertensive pregnancies have higher blood pressure than children born after normotensive pregnancies. Hypertension in pregnancy is considered a major risk factor for intrauterine growth retardation.
K, Himmelmann, A, Himmelmann, A, Niklasson, A, Svensson   +3 more
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Genetic Analyses of Rabbit Survival and Individual Birth Weight

Animals, 2022
Genetic parameters of kit survival traits and birth weight were estimated on ITELV2006 synthetic line aimed at improving kit survival using a multiple trait linear and threshold model.
Rafik Belabbas, Rym Ezzeroug, Ali Berbar, María de la Luz Garcia, Ghania Zitouni, Djamel Taalaziza, Zoulikha Boudjella, Nassima Boudahdir, Samir Diss, María-José Argente   +9 more
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Maternal recall of birthweight and birth size in Entebbe, Uganda. [PDF]

, 2012
OBJECTIVES: To assess the reliability of maternally recalled birthweight and size in Entebbe, Uganda. METHODS: The study population comprised 404 mothers, who were participants in the Entebbe Mother and Baby Study (EMaBS). Mothers were recruited to EMaBS
Webb, Emily L, Kakande, Muhammed, Muhangi, Lawrence, Lule, Swaib A, Kizindo, Robert, Nampijja, Margaret, Elliott, Alison M, Ndibazza, Juliet, Akello, Florence   +8 more
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Evaluation of a local goat population for fertility traits aiming at the improvement of its economic sustainability through genetic selection

Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2018
The study aims to determine the environmental and genetic components for the reproductive performance of a Tunisian local goat population to set up the basis for the future improvement of this important component of efficient production. The reproductive
Ahlem Atoui, María J. Carabaño, Sghaier Najari   +2 more
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Eye size at birth in prosimian primates: life history correlates and growth patterns. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Primates have large eyes relative to head size, which profoundly influence the ontogenetic emergence of facial form. However, growth of the primate eye is only understood in a narrow taxonomic perspective, with information biased toward ...
Joshua R Cummings, Magdalena N Muchlinski, E Christopher Kirk, Susan J Rehorek, Valerie B DeLeon, Timothy D Smith   +5 more
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Size at birth and blood pressure in young adults: findings from a Brazilian birth cohort study

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2012
OBJETIVO: Describir la prevalencia de presión arterial limítrofe (PAL) e hipertensión (HT) entre adultos jóvenes y evaluar la asociación entre tamaño al nacer y PAL/HT. MÉTODOS: : Los datos fueron colectados en el primer estudio de cohorte de nacimientos
Viviane Cunha Cardoso, Javier Meritano, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Heloísa Bettiol, Marco Antonio Barbieri, Carlos Grandi   +5 more
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Birth Size and the Pathogenesis of Breast Cancer

PLoS Medicine, 2008
In a major undertaking reported in this issue of PLoS Medicine, a collaborative group co-ordinated by Isobel dos Santos Silva provide all but conclusive evidence that birth size is a predictor of breast cancer risk in adult life [1]. The researchers compiled and reanalysed individual participant data from 32 studies, comprising 22,058 cases of breast ...
Lagiou, P., Trichopoulos, D.
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Early-life nutritional and environmental determinants of thymic size in infants born in rural Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2009
The aim was to assess the impact of nutritional status and environmental exposures on infant thymic development in the rural Matlab region of Bangladesh.
Collinson, A. C.,, Collinson, AC, Prentice, AM, Vahter, M.,, Raqib, R, Arifeen, SE, R Raqib, Prentice, A. M.,, SE Moore, Prentice, A M, SE Arifeen, Fulford, AJC, Moore, SE, Moore, Sophie E, AC Collinson, Arifeen, S E, Vahter, M, Y Wagatsuma, Raqib, R.,, Persson, L A, Arifeen, S. E.,, Wagatsuma, Y.,, AJC Fulford, Moore, Sophie E.,, Vahter, M,, Fulford, A J C, Persson, LA, AM Prentice, LÅ Persson, Moore, Sophie E; id_orcid, Fulford, A. J. C.,, Collinson, A C, Persson, Lars-Åke,, Wagatsuma, Y, M Vahter   +34 more
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Is Infant birth weight and mothers perceived birth size associated with the practice of exclusive breastfeeding in Ghana?

PLoS ONE, 2022
IntroductionDespite widespread advocacy for exclusive breastfeeding, and the associated benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for both infants and mothers, there is low prevalence in both developed and developing countries.
Martin Wiredu Agyekum, Samuel N A Codjoe, Fidelia A A Dake, Mumuni Abu   +3 more
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GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS- ON DOE REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE UNDER DESERT CONDITION [PDF]

Journal of Animal and Poultry Production, 2002
Reproductive performance of 215 does of pure New Zealand Wbite·1abbits (NN), pure Californian (CC), two reciprocal crosses (NC& CN), two backerosses (BCN and BCe) and F2 crossbred were studied.
Z. Sabra, H. Zaky,
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