The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting low birth weight (LBW) at four central hospitals in Vientiane, the capital city of Lao PDR. We collected data from 235 mothers with LBW babies and 265 with babies of normal birth weight (NBW) who had delivered them at four central hospitals from March to June of 2008. Among the mothers of LBW babies, 84.7% were aged 18-35 years, 7...

Low birth weight (LBW), defined as a live birth weighing less than 2500 g, is a significant public health problem in the United States, but the complex nature of the etiology of this problem is not fully understood. Moreover, significant disparities in LBW prevalence are well documented among certain populations, particularly in minority and underserved communities. The identification of spatia...

BACKGROUND To identify prognostic factors associated with recurrence of low birthweight (LBW) in successive gestations, a study was carried out with a subsample of mothers enrolled in the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort. METHODS Data were collected by hospital-based interviews. Newborns were weighed and measured. Gestational age was defined according to the date of last menstrual period, ultra-soun...

Eighty-eight multiparous sows were used to evaluate whether type and timing of oil supplementation during gestation influences the incidence of low birth weight (LBW). Sows were allocated (eight per treatment) commercial sow pellets (3 kg/d; control diet) or an experimental diet consisting of control diet plus 10 % extra energy in the form of excess pellets, palm oil, olive oil (OO), sunflower ...

BACKGROUND Healthy infants typically regain their birth weight by 21 days of age; however, failure to do so may be due to medical, nutritional or environmental factors. Globally, the incidence of low birth weight deliveries is high, but few studies have assessed the postnatal weight changes in this category of infants, especially in Africa. The aim was to determine what proportion of LBW infant...

OBJECTIVE We studied and compared the attitudes of pregnant women v new mothers in an attempt to confirm changing patterns of maternal response towards medical ethical decision making in critically ill or malformed neonates. DESIGN Data were obtained by questionnaires divided into three sections: 1. sociodemographic; 2. Theoretical principles which might be utilised in the decision-making pro...

It has been 35 years since Edgar Rey Sanabria responded to the high rate of morbidity and mortality among low-birth-weight (LBW)/preterm newborns in Bogotá, Colombia, with guidelines that have become known as kangaroo mother care.1−4 To address a shortage of incubators and medical personnel, Dr. Sanabria, in a classic case of reverse engineering, analyzed what standard incubator care provided f...

The consequences of a low litter average birth weight phenotype for postnatal growth performance and carcass quality of all progeny, and testicular development in male offspring, were investigated. Using data from 25 sows with one, and 223 sows with two consecutive farrowing events, individual birth weight (BW) was measured and each litter between 9 and 16 total pigs born was classified as low ...

The estimated number of Low birth weight (LBW) (<2500 g) babies is about 20 million (15.5% of living births) (1). Thus, decreasing 30% of LBW by 2025 is the third global target. Its rate rises to 17% in the developing countries, which is only 7% in developed countries (1). The prevalence of LBW in Morocco is 11%, which is higher than those recorded in Algeria (7%), Tunisia (7%) and Jordan (10%)...

Birth weight is the body weight of a baby at its birth. There have been numerous studies that have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to show links between birth weight and laterlife conditions, including diabetes, obesity, tobacco smoking and intelligence. A baby born small or large for gestational age (either of the two extremes) is thought to have an increased risk of different comp...