BACKGROUND The morbidity and mortality pattern amongst neonates admitted into the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital were reviewed from 1st June 2003 to 30th November 2004. RESULTS The major indications for admission for inborn babies were infections (27.4%), jaundice (21%) and low birth weight (LBW) (18.4%). The out born babies were admitted largely for sepsis (26.8%), jaundice (17.7%),...

Low birth weight (LBW) is a common public health problem in the world and an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in low resource settings. 1 It has been defined by world health organization (WHO) as weight of live born infants of less than 2,500 grams, regardless of gestational age or any other etiology. 2 The disease and its consequences have a strong link with the health stat...

AIM To study the prevalence of associated anomalies with neonatal duodenal obstruction and factors impacting short-term survival. MATERIAL AND METHODS Records of 31 neonates with neonatal duodenal obstruction could be retrieved and analyzed for a 13.5-year-period (October 2003-May 2016). M:F ratio was 1.58:1. The mean birth weight was 2.15 kg; 12 patients were preterm. Etiologies included duo...

BACKGROUND Low birth weight (LBW) remains to be a leading cause of neonatal death and a major contributor to infant and under-five mortality. Its prevalence has not declined in the last decade in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Asia. Some individual level factors have been identified as risk factors for LBW but knowledge is limited on contextual risk factors for LBW especially in SSA. METHODS Co...

OBJECTIVES This study measured the impact of shifts in maternal age and parity on the increase in the low birth weight (LBW) rate in Korea. METHODS We obtained raw data for all 6 397 945 live births registered at the Korea National Statistical Office between 1995 and 2005. We calculated the proportion of increment in the LBW rate due to changes in the distribution of maternal age and parity (...

BACKGROUND Low Birth Weight (LBW) is prevalent in low-income countries. Even though the economic evaluation of interventions to reduce this burden is essential to guide health policies, data on costs associated with LBW are scarce. This study aims to estimate the costs to the health system and to the household and the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) arising from infant deaths associated ...

The weight of a baby at birth has important impacts for his future development. When babies are born weighing less than 2500 grams, the international standard for low birth weight (LBW), their mortality rates are higher than those of their normal birthweight counterparts (Walker et al. 2007). If an LBW baby does survive, his future is much grimmer than that of a normal birth weight baby. Educat...

this study was aimed to evaluate the situation of congenital hypothyroidism (ch) in guilan using the screening program and determine the correlation of ch with birth weight, gestational age and seasonality. during 2006 to 2010, in guilan province, neonatal screening for ch by measurement of serum tsh level was performed in 3-5 days after birth. all neonates with tsh level ≥ 5mu/l were referred ...

Low birth weight (LBW), defined as a live birth weighing\2,500 g, is a significant public health problem in the United States, especially a few states including Georgia. Although much work has been done to study the epidemiology of LBW in various regions, the spatial–temporal patterns of LBW prevalence in Georgia remain unclear to a large degree. This paper investigates the temporal trend of LB...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Low birth weight (LBW) babies are a vulnerable group and represent two outcomes--preterm birth (preterm LBW) and term with intrauterine growth retardation (term LBW). LBW babies are considered to have low nutrient reserve, but the extent of deficiency as compared to the normal babies and the differences between preterm LBW and term LBW are unclear. This study was carried ...