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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Low 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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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 …
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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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The effect of nursing interventions on thermoregulation and neuromotor function in very low birthweight infants
… lead 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 …
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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 …
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California African-American Infant Mortality Prevention: A Prospective Study
… were 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 …
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The Role of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Carriage on Wasting Among Vaccinated Gambian Infants: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Birth Cohort
… from 120 infants recruited at birth and followed up at regular intervals for two years. The data was collected in Rural Gambia between March 2013 and September 2015 as part of the Vaccination and Paediatric Microbiome Project. Nutritional status was classified using weight-for-length (WLZ), …
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Maternal Social Networks and Mother-Infant Interactions in Preterm and Fullterm Infants (Support, Density)
… months of age. All preterm infants were of very low birthweight and experienced medical complications. Mothers were interviewed regarding their perceptions of their social networks and ratings of maternal and infant behaviors were obtained from videotaped mother-infant interactions. There were …
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Envisioning maternal health practice through antiracist feminisms
… health disparities, including preterm births, low birthweight, maternal and infant mortality, and maternal morbidities, disproportionately affect birthing parents of color, queer parents, and low-income parents in comparison to white, cisgender, heterosexual, financially-privileged parents. My …
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Stress and coping of parents of hospitalized premature infants
… identified stressors associated with having a low birthweight, premature infant hospitalized in a newborn intensive care unit (NICU). From this list of stressors, parents chose the most stressful, rated the extent to which they felt they had control, reported what they did to cope, and …
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Neurodevelopmental outcome of the high risk infant in Cape Town
… risk infants (including both infants of very low birthweight and infants who have survived hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy); to evaluate selected early neurodevelopmental assessments of these infants; and to propose a protocol for their effective follow-up. Three separate cohorts were …
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Oropharyngeal dysphagia in neonates; prevalence and risk factors within a South African context
… dysphagia (OPD) remains largely unexplored in lower middle-income countries, with limited published research on this topic. In the South African context, factors such as poverty, burden of disease and limited access to healthcare may elevate the risk of OPD among neonates. Improvements in …
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Risk factors for unsuccessful induction of labour at Mowbray Maternity Hospital
… associated with USIOL: nulliparity, and low birthweight. In the USIOL group, 51.9% were nulliparous compared to 33.1% of SIOL (p=0.013). In the USIOL group, 18.5% of babies weighed less than 2.5 kgms compared to 8.3% in SIOL (p=0.006). Hypertension as an indication for IOL, as …
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HMGB1- An Immunotherapeutic Target for the Treatment of Neonatal Sepsis and Associated Neuroinflammation
… care unit. Preterm infants and infants with very low birthweight are at increased risk of sepsis and its associated morbidities. Whilst developments in supportive care and antimicrobial advancements have decreased mortality within this population, there has been minimal improvement in the …
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Children At Risk: Child Health in America
… Recent data reveals an increase in the number of low-birthweight babies born each year, the number of children suffering from a chronic illness, and the percentage of children who are technology-dependent. Yet, fewer women receive prenatal care now than in 1970 and the percentage of children …
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