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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Birthweight"”.
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Low birthweight discrimination using maternal variables.
… smoking habit, which are associated with birthweight. Hytten and Paintin (1963), Duffus et al (1971), Pirani, Campbell and MacGillivray (1973) have shown a relationship between plasma volume expansion in pregnancy and birthweight. Plasma volume has previously been studied but only in …
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Documenting and explaining birthweight trends in the United States, 1989-2007
Birthweight is one of the most important health indicators for a newborn infant. Birthweight at either the lower or higher end is associated with adverse health outcomes in later life. In recent years, birthweight distribution in the United States has shifted to the lower end. This dissertation …
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Neighborhood social environments and the distribution of low-birthweight in Chicago
… Ordinarily, social inequalities in rates of low birthweight (LBW) are discussed in terms of risk factors for these conditions, such as race, income, education, or prenatal care use, which largely focus on individual behaviors and circumstances to explain inequalities in maternal health. It is …
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The development of posture in very low birthweight infants (<1500 grams)
… were to examine postural development in very low birthweight and normal birthweight infants and to determine whether deviant postures were predictive of adverse neurodevelopmental outcome. In the first part of the study the 7 postural responses selected by Vojta to evaluate neuromotor development …
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A study of low birthweight infants delivered at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
… with reduced neonatal birth weight.Causes of low birthweight in neonates can be multi-factorial. Maternal factors may include her age, marital status, parity, social economic factors, preterm labour, multiple pregnancy, possible complications in the index pregnancy, necessitating pregnancy …
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The effect of nursing interventions on thermoregulation and neuromotor function in very low birthweight infants
… to development of flattened posture very low birthweight (VLBW) infants and contributes to both short and longer term implications for functional motor development of upper and lower extremities. To date limited research has been undertaken to investigate methods of reducing flattened posture …
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Stressful postpartum psychologic reactions in adult and adolescent African-American mothers of low birthweight infants
… if adolescent African-American mothers of low birthweight infants would have a greater degree of postpartum stressful psychologic reaction than adult African-American mothers of low birthweight infants. The sample consisted of 28 adults and 25 adolescents, all of whom had given birth to low …
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The effect of low birth weight on timing to BCG vaccination in a rural district of Northern Ghana
… Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination of low birthweight (LBW) infants has been shown to have heterologous immunological effects by increasing the in vitro cytokine responses which contribute to the maturation of the infant immune system and thereby protecting against fatal infections in the …
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The influence of birth weight on under-five children’s nutritional status in Zambia
… study aimed at investigating the influence of birthweight on under–five children’s nutritional status in Zambia. The study also investigated maternal health, child, household and mother’s characteristics as they indirectly influence birthweight and nutritional status of children. Knowledge …
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The influence of birth weight on under-five children’s nutritional status in Zambia
… study aimed at investigating the influence of birthweight on under–five children’s nutritional status in Zambia. The study also investigated maternal health, child, household and mother’s characteristics as they indirectly influence birthweight and nutritional status of children. Knowledge …
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Heat Stress Induced Fetal Dwarfing and Uterine Blood Flow in Sheep
… intake would alleviate heat induced dwarfing. Birthweight adjusted for sex and litter size was reduced 1.8 kg in trial 1 (P < .05) and 1.9 kg in trials 1 and 2 combined (P < .06) with maternal heat stress. Lamb sex, litter size, lamb condition and gestation length were all correlated (P < .05). …
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Race differences in infant mortality
… death due to a specific cause. Prenatal care and birthweight are included as intervening variables. A two part analysis is employed. The first part utilizes logistic regression to determine the extent of race differences in the probability of an infant death. The second part utilizes multinomial …
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The impact of acculturation level and marital status on infant health and maternal education among California resident Hispanics
… health measures examined in this study are birthweight (low or adequate birthweight) and neonatal intensive care unit admission. More acculturated women were found to be more likely to have babies admitted to the NICU than less acculturated women. More acculturated women were also more …
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California African-American Infant Mortality Prevention: A Prospective Study
… studied to identify their association with low birthweight and their usefulness in developing low birthweight predictive models. Results revealed that BIH participants experienced a lower percentage of low birthweight during the two-year study period than the statewide percentage reported for …
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Aspects of nutrition, metabolism and growth of the low birth weight infant
… weeks in enterally fed preterm infants of <1500g birthweight and a sodium intake of at least 3-4mmol/kg/day was necessary to maintain plasma sodium above 130mmol/l during this period. Plasma copper, zinc and albumin levels and alkaline phosphatase activity were recorded in infants of varying …
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Abdominal surgery in very low birth weight neonates in a developing world neonatal unit- Short term outcomes and risk factors for mortality
… seen, attributed to improved survival in this birthweight category. Objectives To describe the short-term survival to discharge in VLBW infants following abdominal surgery at a South African public tertiary hospital and to examine the utility of common scoring systems for prognostication. …
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Impact of DTG Use During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes of HIV-Infected Women in the Western Cape, South Africa
… and stillbirth), prematurity (<37weeks GA), low birthweight (LBW) (<2500g), high birthweight (>400g) and size for GA [including small-(SGA) and large-for-GA (LGA) from Intergrowth estimates. Logistic regression models assessed the association between HIV/TLD and birth outcomes adjusting for …
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