Estimated fetal weights versus birth weights: should the reference intrauterine growth curves based on birth weights be retired?

Prediction of birth weights from body weights of newborns.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of prediction of birth weights from body weights of newborns till six days after birth. DESIGN Prospective follow-up. SETTING Four villages near Hyderabad. METHODS Weights of 47 newborns were recorded daily from the day of birth for seven days. The birth weights were regressed on the weights of the babies taken on the 2nd day to the 7th day. Specificity ...

Birth weights and the geography of poverty

Katherine O'Regan is a graduate student in the Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley. Michael Wiseman is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and at the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, and an affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A more detailed discussion of this subject can be found in O'Re...

Factors Affecting Birth Weights of Swine.

The data were taken from the breeding and farrowing records of the Animal Husbandry Section of the IOWA GRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION during the years 1915 and 1917 to 1930 inclusive. The data were collected in connection with other experiments2 not planned expressly to make this study possible. Yet no practice was followed which seems likely to have affected the birth weights in a way which w...

Winter Temperatures May Affect Calf Birth Weights

High birth weights in prewar Faroe Islands.

Birth weights in the Faroe Islands are among the highest in the world. During the 1980s, infants born there had 200 grams higher mean birth weight than their Danish peers. Half of this diVerence could be attributed to a longer gestation (four days on average), half to a higher fetal growth rate. A high intake of seafood has been suggested to be a possible cause of this pattern. The findings of ...