Objectives: This report uses matched birth and infant death certificates to examine recent changes in birthweight distribution as well as birthweightand cause-specific infant mortality. The purpose is to discern trends and patterns in the ten years since high infant mortality promoted expanded maternal and child care programs, including the expansion of Medicaid coverage for pregnant women. Met...

Administration of oral indomethacin to treat cardiorespiratory failure in 7 low birthweight infants, after failure of conventional therapy, produced an improvement in only 2 infants. These infants had a higher birthweight than the group as a whole. Surgical ligation, rather than oral indomethacin, may be the treatment of choice for persistent ductus arteriosus in very low birthweight infants.

2 major contributory factor, hence the overwhelming focus on low birthweight babies, which has, expectedly, given rise to a significantly improved outcome in low birthweight infants. The role of high birthweight is however sparsely investigated and less attention is given to it.Available studies commonly report significant perinatal morbidity in this group of babies which include birth asphyxia...

IN 1900, the Infant Mortality Rate (I.M.R.) in Belfast was 153 per 1000 livebirths (Elwood, 1973). By 1971, the rate had fallen to 26 per 1000 (Registrar General's Report, 1973). This figure is, however, one of the highest in any city of comparable size in the United Kingdom. The I.M.R. in Birmingham in that year was 20 per 1000, in Bristol it was 17 and in Stoke on Trent 16, while even Teeside...

BACKGROUND Very low birthweight, i.e. a birthweight < 1500 g, is among the strongest determinants of infant mortality and childhood morbidity. To develop primary prevention approaches to VLBW birth and its sequelae, information is needed on the causes of preterm birth, their personal and social antecedents, and on conditions associated with very low birthweight. Despite the growing body of evid...

BACKGROUND Low/medium income countries, with health inequalities present high rates of neonates having low birthweight and/or are small for the gestational age. This study aims to analyze the absolute and relative income inequality in the occurrence of low birthweight and small size for gestational age among neonates in four birth cohorts from southern Brazil in 1982, 1993, 2004, and 2011. ME...

BACKGROUND Intrauterine growth restriction is a cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. A variety of definitions of low birthweight are used in clinical practice, with a lack of consensus regarding which definitions best predict adverse outcomes. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relationship between birthweight standards and neonatal outcome in term-born infants (at ≥ 37 weeks of gestation). S...

BACKGROUND Birthweight remains one of the strongest predictors of perinatal mortality and disability. Birthweight percentiles form a reference that allows the detection of neonates at higher risk of neonatal and postneonatal morbidity. The aim of the study is to present updated national birthweight percentiles by gestational age for male and female twins born in Australia. METHODS Population ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to investigate whether any observed trends in birthweight are accompanied by changes in maternal sociodemographic characteristics, including age, marital status, and education. METHODS We conducted a population-based study of term singletons born in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, between 1992 and 2005 (N = 66,638). Large-sample significance tests...