placenta plays a vital role in normal fetal development and failure of placenta to gain weight and insufficiency of its function can result in fetal disorders. we performed this study to determine placental weight and factors associated with low weight placentas. in a longitudinal cross-sectional study, women with single pregnancy, and gestational age between 37-42 weeks were studied. the subje...

BACKGROUND: Infant mortality has traditionally been analyzed as a function of birth weight and birth weight-specific mortality. Often, however, when comparing two populations, the population with higher overall mortality has lower mortality at low birth weights and a reversed pattern at higher birth weights. Methods standardizing birth weight, such as the "relative birth weight", have been prop...

INTRODCTION Low birth weight (LBW) is a major risk factor for neonatal death. However, most neonates in low-income countries are not weighed at birth. This results in many LBW infants being overlooked. Female community health volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal are non-health professionals who are living in local communities and have already worked in a field of reproductive and child health under the ...

OBJECTIVE To examine long-term outcomes in families of children with very low birth weights (<1500 g) in relation to the extent of low birth weight and neonatal medical risk. DESIGN Concurrent/cohort prospective study. SETTING Regional follow-up program. PARTICIPANTS Families of 60 children of school age with birth weights less than 750 g, 55 with birth weights between 750 and 1499 g, and...

INTRODUCTION Infants with low birth weights are provided with hospital nutrition support to enhance their survivability and body weights. However, different hospitals have different nutrition support formulas. Therefore, the effectiveness of these nutrition support formulas should be investigated. OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of hospital nutrition support on growth velocity and nutritional ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of prediction of birth weights from body weights of newborns till six days after birth. DESIGN Prospective follow-up. SETTING Four villages near Hyderabad. METHODS Weights of 47 newborns were recorded daily from the day of birth for seven days. The birth weights were regressed on the weights of the babies taken on the 2nd day to the 7th day. Specificity ...

a camel research station was established in 1990 at the central desert land of iran named kavir-e-loot, to evaluate productivity performance of one humped camel. the data consisted of birth weights (bw), three (w3), six (w6), nine (w9) months and yearling (w12) body weight of animals and the pedigree was registered during a period of 14 years since 1991 to 2004. the body weight traits of birth,...

To determine the relationship between within-litter birth weight variation and pre-weaning survival and weight gain, and to provide practical guidance on fostering low-birth-weight piglets, we analyzed piglet survival and weight gain in litters of piglets from 52 sows followed through eight consecutive parities. Litters with high variation in birth weight had more deaths, especially if the litt...