BACKGROUND Increasing age has been hypothesized with wear and tear (weathering) in mothers, which may result to low birthweight of their babies. The prevalence of low birthweight could be heightened if maternal weathering is associated with poor maternal socioeconomic variables. In this current study, we analyzed the effects of maternal weathering on babies' birthweights. METHODS One hundred ...

Disease in Childhood, 49, 386. Iron status of preterm low birthweight infants and their response to oral iron. The iron status of a group of preterm low birthweight infants preventively treated with oral iron has been studied by measuring haemoglobin concentration, serum iron concentration, and total iron binding capacity (TIBC) at intervals from birth to 9 months. 47 infants born at an average...

responsiveness as severe as that of the asthmatics. Moreover, with very few positive airway responders in a small study group it would be difficult to show a significant difference statistically, even if such a difference had existed. Additionally, without a reference population, they cannot say whether their findings were normal or abnormal. In our own study of a cohort of low birthweight chil...

AIM To determine the visual functions, at age 10-12 years, of a geographically based cohort of children of birth weight less than 1701 g. The results were compared to a group of children born at full term. METHODS 572 low birthweight (LBW) "low birthweight cohort" children who had been examined in the neonatal period were invited for review at 10-12 years of age. 169 11 year old schoolchildre...

Measurements of dynamic lung compliance (Cdyn) were made on 42 occasions in a group of 15 intubated very low birthweight infants with respiratory distress syndrome, using an oesophageal balloon and pneumotachograph system. Values of Cdyn were compared with those of total respiratory system compliance (Crs) using an occlusion technique. Ten very low birthweight infants with no respiratory diseas...

The prevalence of visual defects at ages 7 to 9 in 1485 children of birthweight 2000 g or less is reported. These children were born in 1970, 1971, and 1973 to parents resident in what is now the South East Thames Regional Health Authority area, and comprise 73.9% of all survivors of births of this weight, 81% of those whose present address is known. Only 16 (1%) children were reported to have ...

We report 10 cases of hypercalcaemia associated with hypophosphataemia in the first two weeks of life in extremely low birthweight infants (birthweight less than 1000 g). At the time of diagnosis, the infants were fed mainly with expressed breast milk but they had also received intravenous nutrition. After treatment with additional phosphate plasma calcium concentrations returned to normal. The...

OBJECTIVES We determined whether African American women's lifetime exposure to interpersonal racial discrimination is associated with pregnancy outcomes. METHODS We performed a case-control study among 104 African American women who delivered very low birthweight (<1500 g) preterm (<37 weeks) infants and 208 African American women who delivered non-low-birthweight (>2500 g) term infants in Ch...

White blood, neutrophil, and platelet counts were higher in 101 infants with appropriate weight for gestational age than in 42 infants who were small for gestational age. The recognised postnatal rise in counts was seen in the infants of appropriate weight, but in the infants who were small for gestational age the counts fell for the first three days.