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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Low birth weight (LBW)"”.
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Associations Between Drinking Water Source Watershed and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Central Appalachia
… correlations between land cover and adverse birth outcomes (ABOs) through the application of watershed epidemiology, an emerging environmental health paradigm. Birth records for the Central Appalachian region were acquired from their respective state health departments from 2001 to 2015: each …
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Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans serotypes in gingival crevicular fluid of mothers delivering preterm.
Preterm birth (PTB), defined as delivery before 37 weeks of gestation, is a significant global public health concern. It has a tremendous impact on both the healthcare system and the individual families affected. Low birth weight (LBW), is a direct consequence of PTB or intrauterine growth …
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Examining the Relationship Between Safe Drinking Water Violations and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Virginia
… association between SDWA violations and preterm birth (PTB), low birth weight (LBW), and term-low birth weight (tLBW). Singleton births (n=665,984) occurring between 2007 and 2015 in Virginia were geocoded and assigned to their corresponding water service area. Health-based (HB) and monitoring …
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Lived experiences of mothers when providing Kangaroo mother care at the hospitals in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… weeks of life due to complications of premature birth. One-third of Low Birth Weight (LBW) babies die within the first 12 hours after delivery. The main reasons premature babies are at greater risk of illness and death is that they lack the ability to control their body temperature meaning that …
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Low birth weight and neighbourhood of residence: a multi-level analysis
Low birth weight (LBW) is most often measured at an individual level. However, increasingly, it has been shown that other factors, which are not directly tied to the individual, can influence low birth weight. Specifically, factors such as family income, education level, place of residence, and …
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Nutritional and non-nutritional risk factors and pregnancy outcome of WIC participants in Virginia
… pregnancy outcomes, including higher infant birth weight, a decrease in low birth weight (LBW) and decreased incidences of prematurity, neonatal mortality and abnormal births. Nutritional and non-nutritional risk variables and birth outcomes were examined in 2,133 pregnant women enrolled in …
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Impact of a newly designed food complement (food multimix) on nutritional status and birth outcomes of pregnant women in the Gauteng province of South Africa
… μmol/L in the control group. Average pregnancy weight gain in the intervention group was 11.5 kg compared to 10.40 kg in control subjects. Average birth weight in the intervention group was 3.02 kg compared to 2.71 kg in controls. Incidence of low birth weight (LBW) was 8.8% in the intervention …
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Memory consolidation in developmental disorders
… velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCFS, n = 21), and low birth weight (LBW, n = 38) and neurotypicals (n = 64). Children with ASD and VCFS demonstrated a relative weakness in facial and visual memory, while no between-group differences were found during the auditory verbal learning task of the TOMAL. …
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A study of the association of prenatal inflammatory diet and adverse infant birth outcomes in a birth cohort in Uganda
Background: Low birth weight (LBW) and low infant lung capacity among others are risk factors for childhood and adulthood chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. These respiratory diseases are among the leading causes of death and disability …
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EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROVISION OF FUNCTIONAL AMINO ACIDS TO ENHANCE ROBUSTNESS IN ENTERIC CHALLENGED PIGS
… advantageous in susceptible categories such as low birth weight (LBW) pigs. Therefore, this thesis evaluated the independent effect of FAA supplementation in Salmonella Typhimurium (ST)-challenged pigs and its interaction with dietary protein content and source, and with pig birth weight. The …
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The impact of combined maternal alcohol and tobacco use on low birth weight in singleton pregnancies : a population based study in the US, 2003
Background: The Black-White disparity in birth outcomes in the United States remains embedded. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines low birth weight (LBW) as birthweight less than 2500 grams/5.5 pounds or below the 10th percentile for gestational age. LBW is a frequent marker of poor …
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Diversity of vaginal microbiota associated with bacterial vaginosis and the impact on pregnancy outcomes in HIV-infected and uninfected women.
… and may be a cause of higher rates of adverse birth outcomes in these women. Adverse birth outcomes have been reported to be higher in HIV-infected women both on treatment or treatment naïve compared to HIV-uninfected women. The relationship between the vaginal microbiome, HIV and pregnancy …
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Knowledge of and attitudes towards kangaroo mother care in the Eastern Subdistrict, Cape Town
… of care for all new-borns, particularly for low birth weight infants (Department of Reproductive Health and Research, 2003) in both developed and developing countries. The Western Cape Provincial Government implemented a policy on KMC as part of their strategy to decrease the morbidity and …