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The "fetal origin of adult disease Hypothesis" originally described by Barker et al. identified the relationship between impaired in utero growth and adult cardiovascular disease risk and death. Since then, numerous clinical and experimental studies have confirmed that early developmental influences...
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PMID: 21821056
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The teenage pregnancy is considered high risk. Often, teenagers have more episodes of eclampsia, preterm delivery, premature rupture of membranes, low birth weight, prematurity, postpartum complications, and surgical wound infections.
To evaluate nutritional condition...
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PMID: 21966794
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To analyze survival patterns among infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) in the State of Michigan.
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PMID: 21349542
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Object Premature, low-birth-weight infants with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus have a high risk of shunt obstruction and infection. Established risk factors for shunt failure include grade of the hemorrhage and age at shunt insertion. There is anecdotal evidence that the amount of red blood cells or...
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PMID: 21284459
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Prognosis of the development of perinatal care in the Czech Republic in near future.
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PMID: 21656994
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We report here a 35-year-old pregnant woman with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). She was diagnosed with AML (M2) in August 2009, coinciding with the 26(th) week of pregnancy. She underwent a cesarean section at 27 weeks gestation, delivering a very low birth weight male infant (1,066 g). One week l...
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PMID: 21378477
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We investigated whether PM2.5 mass, constituents, and sources are associated with birth weight for term births. PM2.5 filters collected in 3 Connecticut counties and 1 Massachusetts county from August 2000 through February 2004 were analyzed for more than 50 elements. Source apportionment was used t...
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PMID: 20811286
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The aim of this study was to assess various cognitive abilities such as attention, IQ, reasoning, and memory related to academic achievement in 8- and 9-year-old preterm children. A total of 141 children were assessed. The preterm group (=37 weeks) comprised 63 children and was compared to 78 full-t...
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PMID: 21044492
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Population-based estimations of perinatal and neonatal outcomes are sparse in Vietnam. There are no previously published data on small for gestational age (SGA) infants. A rural population in northern Vietnam was investigated from 1999 to 2005 (n=5521). Based on the birthweight distributions within...
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PMID: 20955231
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To examine whether the low birth weight (LBW) paradox exists in Brazil.
LBW and cesarean section rates between 1995 and 2007 were estimated based on data from SINASC (Brazilian Live Births Database). Infant mortality rates (IMRs) were obtained using an indirect method that correct for underreporting...
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PMID: 20835496
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To analyze factors associated with survival in the first year of life.
A historical cohort study was carried out using data from live birth and mortality information systems, including 90,153 live birth records and 1,053 records of death before age one year in hospitals in the cities of Florianópol...
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PMID: 20882261
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We carried out a population-based cohort study of 1,524,114 singletons born in Denmark between 1 January 1978 and 31 December 2004. We obtained information on gestational age, birth weight, and injury from the Danish Medical Birth Registry and the National Hospital Register. We followed participants...
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PMID: 20585254
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BACKGROUND: Neonatal morbidity and mortality rates reflect a nation's socio-economic status, the efficiency and effectiveness of health care services. This important indicator is useful in planning for improved healthcare delivery. A four year review of neonatal outcome was therefore conducted in th...
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PMID: 20857794
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The aim of this study was to survey multiple birth data and to analyze the recent trends of multiple births and its consequences on perinatal problems in Korea from 1991 to 2008. Data were obtained from the Korean Statistical Information Service. The total number of multiple births showed increasing...
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PMID: 20676332
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White women experience their lowest rate of low birth weight (LBW) in their late 20s; the nadir LBW for African-American women is under 20 years with rates rising monotonically thereafter, hypothesized as due to "weathering" or deteriorating health with cumulative disadvantage. Current residential e...
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PMID: 20576757
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Oocytes are formed in utero; menopause occurs when the oocyte pool is depleted. The authors hypothesized that early-life events could affect the number of a woman's oocytes and determine age at menopause. To test their hypothesis, the authors conducted a secondary analysis of baseline data from 22,1...
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PMID: 20534821
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Women exposed to antepartum pyelonephritis or non-pyelonephritic UTIs were not at increased risk of having LBW, preterm, and SGA babies, compared to mothers who did not experience UTIs....
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PMID: 20583933
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Nulliparity was associated with a significantly increased unadjusted risk of LBW/SGA birth, whereas grand multiparity and great grand multiparity were not associated with increased risk of pregnancy outcomes....
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PMID: 20583931
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Placental abruption occurred earlier in pregnancy with male fetal sex but otherwise the outcomes were similar. Compared with controls newborns in the placental abruption group had a worse outcome....
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PMID: 20199362
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We also adjusted for GA, the child's age, and depressive symptoms at ages 4 to 7 years. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and short-term memory at ages 8 to 10 years were also assessed for their putative role in mediating this relation.
LBW and SGA were associated with increas...
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PMID: 20704769
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HIV positive women were significantly more likely to have anaemia in pregnancy [p < 0.001, odds ratio (95% CI) 5.66 (3.0-10.5)], intrauterine growth restriction [p = 0.002, odds ratio (95%CI) 13.82 (1.8-106.7)], preterm labour [p = 0.03, odds ratio (95% CI) 2.89 (1.2-7.0)] and birth weight less than...
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PMID: 19629507
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A consistent and graded association was seen between all types of childhood hardships and smoking status during pregnancy (odds ratio [OR] for 4 or more hardships, 2.02; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.58-2.58; P < .001 for all comparisons). Most hardships were also associated with risk of LBW and P...
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PMID: 20530303
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Concentrations of all analytes were higher in umbilical cord compared with maternal samples. Birthweight was related negatively to maternal homocysteine (r = -0.12) but not related to maternal cobalamin, methylmalonic acid, and folate (r = 0.02, r = 0.06, and r = 0.04, respectively). Regression anal...
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PMID: 20400059
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We found no sex differences in these effects. Sex differential effects of multivitamins on mortality may be due to sex-related differences in the immunological or genetic factors. More research is warranted to examine the effect of vitamins by sex and better understand biological mechanisms mediatin...
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PMID: 20211040
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The micro-TEE provides high quality, useful diagnostic images without hemodynamic or ventilation compromise in small infants undergoing cardiac operations. This advance is important with the growing trend towards complete repair of complex structural heart disease in small infants.
2010 The Society...
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PMID: 20494062
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Shunsuke Araki,
Daijiro Takahashi,
Miyu Matsui,
Reiko Saito,
Hiromi Morita,
Masahiro Ishii,
Ayako Senjyu,
Takahiro Morishita,
Shiho Takano,
Soromon Chiba,
Jiro Mori,
Kazuyasu Kubo,
Hiroshi Sato,
Akihiro Kawakami,
Masayuki Shimono,
Akira Shirahata and
Koichi Kusuhara
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We retrospectively reviewed medical records to analyze the prognosis and the factors affecting the prognosis of 21 patients who underwent BHT at the NICU between 2001 and 2007. The prognosis of those 21 patients at the time of discharge from the NICU was as follows: good-11 patients (52.4%); disabil...
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PMID: 20549908
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Stakeholders in developing countries need to take steps to reduce exposure of vulnerable populations to the toxic effects of aflatoxins.
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PMID: 20045048
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We included pregnant women with 3 or more products that went to the Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad No. 23, IMSS, in Monterrey, NL (Mexico), between 2002-2008. We compared the number of complicated pregnancies and dead products obtained by a technique of assisted reproduction vs. spontaneous.
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PMID: 20939244
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In the last two decades the improved survival of very low birth weight (VLBW) and extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants has underscored the problem of postnatal growth failure of these subjects. Notwithstanding the evident improvements in the general management of these infants during the hospit...
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PMID: 21089724
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Sepsis-related morbidity and mortality is an increasing concern in all neonatal intensive care units, with reported incidences that are dramatically high regardless of the improvements in the quality of neonatal assistance. Antimicrobial resistance is also becoming a global and regional threat to pu...
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PMID: 21089728
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We can, in this way, to supply with parenteral nutrition to all the requirements that these special patients have. In the first approach to the seriously ill newborn, the umbilical vessels, are the first choice to use,we have the way more fast, stable and easy, to guarantee: the emergency therapy, m...
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PMID: 21090088
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At birth the transition by the fetal situation to neonatal life occurs. The real mechanism of lung liquid reabsorption and lung aereation at birth, in the past attributed only to the epithelial sodium channel function, has recently been linked to the first important breaths too and to the following...
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PMID: 21089711
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Our aim was to determine the effect of early or late introduction on success of achieving full milk feeds and on adverse outcomes including NEC.
Eligible babies with birthweight below 10th centile and gestation below 34+6 weeks, born after abnormal antenatal Dopplers, were randomised between 20 and...
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PMID: 21089716
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Macrosomic infants (birth weight >4000 g) show increased risk for shoulder dystocia and associated injuries, hypoglycemia and respiratory distress. Higher risk is directly related to neonatal birth weight. High birth weight is also associated with increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome late...
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PMID: 21090075
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We report preliminary results obtained from 138 mothers and 141 babies (three twin pregnancies). At birth, 16.3% of neonates were less than 37 weeks of gestation and 17% were low birth weight; in addition, 11.3% of neonates were small for gestational age. No cases of neonatal thrombosis were observe...
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PMID: 21089714
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In preterm infants, there seem to be modest neurodevelopmental advantages of more rapid weight gain in the first year of life and only small BP-related effects....
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PMID: 20478940
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The efficacy of antihypertensive treatment was investigated in pregnant women with chronic hypertension (CH) or gestational hypertension (GH) on the basis of the occurrence of pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes. Medically recorded pregnancy complications and birth outcomes of 1579 pr...
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PMID: 20150907
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A prospective study in three Egyptian villages (A, B and C) having a high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection examined incidence of community-acquired HCV infection in children; 2852 uninfected infants were prospectively followed from birth for up to 5.5 years. Fifteen seroconverted for...
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PMID: 20153495
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The latency of the P2 main wave on FVEPs was delayed more significantly in premature infants than in full-term infants at 2 years of corrected age. The visual functional development was delayed in premature infants, especially in VLBW infants (gestational age <32 weeks). The FVEPs were reported low...
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PMID: 20490772
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Compared with pregnant women without herpangina, herpangina was associated with a 2.29- (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.42-3.69), 1.67- (95% CI, 1.04-2.68), and 1.63-fold (95% CI, 1.14-2.33) increased risk of having LBW, preterm, and SGA infants, respectively, after adjusting for family income and...
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PMID: 20417474
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Studies examining the association between maternal pesticide exposure and low birth weight yield conflicting results. The authors examined the association between maternal pesticide use and birth weight among women in the Agricultural Health Study, a large study of pesticide applicators and their sp...
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PMID: 20407994
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In patients receiving UTI, the mean gestational age at delivery was greater than that in the control group (37.8 vs. 35.6 weeks, p=0.003), and the rates of premature delivery before 34 and 37 weeks gestation were lower (3% vs. 20%, p=0.028; and 18% vs. 47%, p=0.008, respectively). The percentage of...
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PMID: 20453419
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Twenty-one community bloodstream infections and 63 healthcare-associated infections were diagnosed. In community bloodstream infections there were no significant differences according to birth weight or gestational age of the neonates. In healthcare-associated infection, however, there was a high pe...
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PMID: 19726111
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The database included 38,646 males and 37,105 females (sex ratio: 1.04). The resulting male and female curves provide smoothed percentiles cutoffs for defining small and large for gestational age births. An actual difference does exist between our curves and those routinely used. CONCLUSION: These c...
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PMID: 20188502
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We identified a total of 4911 women with migraines who gave birth from 2001 to 2003, together with 24,555 matched women as a comparison cohort. Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that after adjusting for potential confounders, the odds ratios were 1.16 [95% confidence intervals (CI) ...
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PMID: 19614685
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We identified a total of 4911 women with migraines who gave birth from 2001 to 2003, together with 24,555 matched women as a comparison cohort. Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that after adjusting for potential confounders, the odds ratios were 1.16 [95% confidence intervals (CI) ...
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PMID: 19614685
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We identified a total of 4911 women with migraines who gave birth from 2001 to 2003, together with 24,555 matched women as a comparison cohort. Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that after adjusting for potential confounders, the odds ratios were 1.16 [95% confidence intervals (CI) ...
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PMID: 19614685
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We identified a total of 4911 women with migraines who gave birth from 2001 to 2003, together with 24,555 matched women as a comparison cohort. Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that after adjusting for potential confounders, the odds ratios were 1.16 [95% confidence intervals (CI) ...
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PMID: 19614685
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We identified a total of 4911 women with migraines who gave birth from 2001 to 2003, together with 24,555 matched women as a comparison cohort. Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that after adjusting for potential confounders, the odds ratios were 1.16 [95% confidence intervals (CI) ...
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PMID: 19614685
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