OBJECTIVE To explore the intergenerational birth-weight patterns of the direct female descendants of Mexican-American women. DESIGN This is a population-based study. METHODS Stratified analyses were performed on a transgenerational dataset of 1956-1975 and 1989-1991 Illinois computerized vital records of Mexican-American infants. RESULTS Among the descendants of generation 1 US-born Mexic...

vitamin d is important for the development, growth, and mineralization of the skeletal in neonates and children. vitamin d is essential for intestinal absorption of calcium. vitamin d is metabolized to 25-hydroxyvitamin d and then to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin d. pregnant women in developed countries often have insufficient serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin d and a supplementation of vitamin...

OBJECTIVE To compare the neurobehavior of neonates born to adolescent mothers with and without depression during gestation. METHODS This prospective cross-sectional study included healthy term neonates born to adolescent mothers with untreated depression during gestation, without exposure to legal or illicit drugs, and compared them with infants born to adolescent mothers without psychiatric ...

Background. The neonatal immune system is not fully developed at birth; newborns have adequate lymphocytes counts but these cells lack function. Objective. To assess the activity of T-cells and the influence of the main perinatal factors in very preterm infants (birth weight < 1500 g). Design. Blood samples from 59 preterm infants (21/59 were dizygotic twins) were collected at birth and at 30 d...

Preterm born children without neurological impairments have been shown to present some visual-manual coordination deficits, more or less depending on their tonicity and the degree of prematurity. In this paper, we compare the development of tool use in 15-23-month-old preterm infants born after 33-36 weeks of gestation without neurological complications with that of full-term infants according ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to characterize medical and surgical therapies and short-term outcomes in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of CDH infants admitted to 27 children's hospitals submitting data to Children's Hospital Neonatal Database (CHND) from 2010 to 2013, stratified by gestational age, birth weight, and survival. RES...

(Abstracted from JAMA 2022;327:248–263) Although mortality and short-term morbidities have declined in extremely preterm infants, there is still a need for the ongoing review of longer-term health neurodevelopmental outcomes. Since 1991, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Child Health Human Development Neonatal Research Network tracks such outcomes infants born <29 weeks' gestation.

Rohrer's ponderal index in newborns (birth weight * 100/height3) has been used as an indicator of fetal growth status, especially to assess asymmetrical intrauterine growth retardation. Low ponderal index or disproportionate intrauterine growth retardation has higher neonatal morbidity and there are some specific guidelines in intrauterine growth retarded infants to control some of their pr...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have addressed perinatal outcomes in Hispanic, black, and white non-Hispanic women and demonstrated that although foreign-born Mexican American women have many demographic and socioeconomic risk factors, their rates of low birth weight (LBW) infants and infant mortality are similar to those of white women. This phenomenon has been termed an epidemiologic paradox. Ther...