منابع مشابه
Patterns of Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy and Birth Weight
Anthropometric parameters are an important indicator of health and nutritional status comprising the whole span of mans life. However, they are not of the same degree of simplicity and sensitivity in assessing the public health status. During recent decades many studies have attempted to examine the relationships of these measurements in order to present simple alternatives for similar purposes...
متن کاملMaternal smoking and its association with birth weight.
OBJECTIVE Maternal smoking has been associated with a reduction in newborn birth weight. We sought to estimate how the pattern of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy influences newborn size. METHODS One hundred sixty pregnant smoking women were enrolled in a prospective study. We collected data on maternal age, education, prepregnancy body mass index, and parity, as well as alcohol and illi...
متن کاملMaternal cigarette smoking, metabolic gene polymorphism, and infant birth weight.
CONTEXT Little is known about genetic susceptibility to cigarette smoke in relation to adverse pregnancy outcomes. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the association between maternal cigarette smoking and infant birth weight differs by polymorphisms of 2 maternal metabolic genes: CYP1A1 and GSTT1. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Case-control study conducted in 1998-2000 among 741 mothers (1...
متن کاملRelationship between birth weight and domestic maternal passive smoking exposure.
This study aimed to assess the relationship between birth weight and maternal exposure to passive smoking during pregnancy, and to investigate some other determinants of birth weight. A retrospective cohort study in Baghdad, Iraq was conducted during February to August 2004 on a random sample of 300 non-smoker housewife mothers, interviewed 24 hours after delivery: 150 were not exposed to passi...
متن کاملMaternal and Neonatal Zinc and Copper Levels and Birth Weight
Introduction Minerals and trace elements such as zinc and copper have significant influence on development and growth of the fetus and newborn. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between low birth weight and maternal and neonatal zinc, copper levels. Materials and Methods This case – control study was done from September 2006 to Sep 2007 consisted of 65 infants with b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1977
ISSN: 1476-6256,0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112414