The idea that the weight of the placenta at full term is proportional to that of the child seems to be widely accepted. Many of our text-books agree in this view, while others make no mention at all of their relative weights. For instance, Playfair says,1?" The size (of the placenta) varies greatly in different cases, and it is usually largest when the child is big, but not necessarily so." Par...

The associations of parental feeding practices and feeding style with childhood obesity have gained more attention in the literature recently; however, fathers are rarely included within these studies. The aim of this research was to determine the relationship of paternal feeding practices on child diet quality, weight status, and eating behavior, and the moderating effect of paternal feeding s...

BACKGROUND Family-based behavioral weight control treatment involves the parent in the modification of child and parent eating and activity change. OBJECTIVE To assess if parent standardized body mass index (z-BMI) change predicts child z-BMI change. DESIGN Secondary data analysis based on parent and child z-BMI changes from 3 family-based, randomized, controlled weight control studies. Hie...

BACKGROUND Obtaining information on children's health and health events is heavily dependent on maternal report. Experience as to what factors influence accuracy of reporting varies, and few studies have examined the influence of current child health status on recall. METHODS A prospective cohort study involving 1833 children who were assessed in infancy and at 8 to 10 years of age was conduc...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine whether child-caregivers', both parents and kindergarten teachers, health parameters (age, weight status, habitual physical activity score) are significantly associated with the risk of overweight in young children. METHODS We assessed the individual body mass index standard deviation score in a regional cross-sectional health study and matched ...

Each placenta image is accompanied by data about the mother. The only information accompanying the placenta concerning the child is the gestational age and birth weight. To find a correlation between placental features and child health further information about the true health of the child is required. Using the data set provided to the 2010 Summer REU the placentas are labeled as “at risk” or ...

The goal of this study is to address directly the predictive value of birth inputs and outputs, particularly birth weight, for measures of early childhood development in a simultaneous equations modelling framework. Strikingly, birth outputs have virtually no structural/causal effects on early childhood developmental outcomes, and only maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy have some ef...

Introduction T he AIDS epidemic has caused a drastic increase in adult mortality. This study examines the impacts of adult deaths on child nutrition—specifically the impact on child food intake and growth with reference to their weights. Anthropometry data from five southern African countries are analyzed for this purpose, and we adopt new methods to investigate the impacts of (recent) adult de...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether child care arrangements influence infant feeding practices and weight gain among US infants. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data collected by the US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. SETTING A nationally representative sample of infants enrolled in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort at baseline. PARTICIPANT...