purpose: low birth weight (lbw) is one of the most serious health problems in infants. many studies indicate that lbw infants, who survive, may suffer from long- and short-term physical,mental, and social problems. this study aimed to determine the effect of massage therapy on weight gain of lbw neonates. methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial. a total of 45 lbw neonates were rando...

Maternal nutrition is one of the most important factors affecting birth weight of infants. Vitamin is very important in this regard. Pregnant women’s need to multivitamin as well as their weight gain can lead to weight gain and birth weight in infants. Although body weight gain is desirable in most individuals with lower BMI, this matter could be problematic in those with high BMI. In this stud...

BACKGROUND Birth order has been proposed as a cardiovascular risk factor, because the lower birth weight and greater infant weight gain typical of firstborns could programme metabolism detrimentally. METHODS We examined the associations of birth order (firstborn or laterborn) with birth weight-for-gestational age, length/height and body mass index (BMI) z-scores during infancy, childhood, and...

Background: The timing of maternal weight change in pregnancy may be an important determinant of birth weight. The objective of this study was to measure weight gain patterns from early pregnancy until delivery, and to examine the relationship between prenatal weight gain and low birth weight. Methods: A total of 500 pregnant women within 15-20 days of conception, with confirmed pregnancies and...

The aim of this study was to evaluated body weights and survival rates at birth, 3 and 6 months of age and to determine effects of calving year, season and sex on those traits in Southern Anatolian Redcalves. The animals were raised in Adana East Mediterranean Agricultural Research Institute's Dogankent location between 2000 and 2007 years. Duncan test statistic for estimating the differences b...

Objective: The goal of this study was to evaluate the various methods of estimating fetal weight in term pregnancy and to determine their relative accuracy in predicting the same in different weight categories. Materials and methods: The study was conducted at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata from 1st July 2009 to 30th June 2010. It was a prospectiv...

a prospective study of 550 consecutive mothers delivered in amin ob. gyn center of isfahan university was performed to determine the relationships between maternal anemia, placental weight and neonatal birth weight. the important findings were marked placental hypertrophy in anemic mothers. (r= -/9.95) .it is probable that in anemic mothers placental hypertrophy is a compensatory mechanism resp...

results out of 617 patients, 79.6% had 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-ohd). in 21-ohd group 94.5% had classical type and 5.5% were non-classic. among the classic type 78% had salt-wasting form (sw) and 22% simple virilizing (sv). both 21-ohd-sv and sw were diagnosed more frequently in females. frequency of other types were as follow: 11-hydroxylase deficiency (11-ohd), 13.3%; 3ß-hydroxysteroid d...

Mass selection for increased weight at 200 d of age was conducted for six generations in a line of Duroc pigs. A randomly selected contemporary control line was maintained. Our objectives were to observe the response in 200-d weight, to measure correlated responses in weights at earlier ages, daily gains and ultrasound backfat thickness and to compare three methods for estimating responses to s...