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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Birth size"”.
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Sex steroid secretion during childhood in males - with focus on prematurity, birth size, and growth patterns
… concentrations relate to gestational age, birth weight, growth patterns, and adult height outcome. Patients and Methods: In paper I, 11 growth hormone-treated boys with Silver–Russell syndrome (SRS) who had reached adult height were included. In paper II, two further patients were added. …
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Effects of periconceptional undernutrition and twinning on ovine pregnancy
… physiology and adult pathology without affecting birth size, while twinning affects birth size and physiology but with inconsistent effects on adult pathology. We investigated the effects of these two periconceptional events and their interaction on maternal cardiovascular adaptation to pregnancy …
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A study of low birthweight infants delivered at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
Low birth weight refers to infants born with a weight of less than 2,500 grams. The weight of a neonate at birth has a significant prognostic value and is a major determinant of child survival. Neonatal mortality and morbidity tends to increase proportionately with reduced neonatal birth …
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Growth, infectious morbidity, and neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed and HIV-unexposed infants in the context of lifelong maternal antiretroviral therapy and breastfeeding: a prospective cohort study
… was doubled among CHEU vs CHU. Stratified by birth size, differences in LAZ between CHEU and CHU were magnified for those born small-forgestational age and absent for those born appropriate-for-gestational age. Infectious morbidity analyses revealed greater risks among CHEU than CHU in the …