OBJECTIVE To determine whether the relationship of gestational age (GA) with brain volumes and cognitive functions is linear or whether it follows a threshold model in preterm and term born children during school-age. STUDY DESIGN We studied 106 children (M = 10 years 1 month, SD = 16 months; 40 females) enrolled in primary school: 57 were healthy very preterm children (10 children born 24-27...

Objectives To describe neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years corrected age for children born alive at 22-26, 27-31, and 32-34 weeks' gestation in 2011, and to evaluate changes since 1997.Design Population based cohort studies, EPIPAGE and EPIPAGE-2.Setting France.Participants 5567 neonates born alive in 2011 at 22-34 completed weeks' gestation, with 4199 survivors at 2 years corrected age incl...

Maternal depression and anxiety represent risk factors for the quality of early mother-preterm infant interactions, especially in the case of preterm birth. Despite the presence of many studies on this topic, the comorbidity of depressive and anxious symptoms has not been sufficiently investigated, as well as their relationship with the severity of prematurity and the quality of early interacti...

OBJECTIVE To examine prospectively the value of demographic characteristics and ultrasound findings in the prediction of subsequent fetal loss in pregnancies with live fetuses at 6-10 weeks of gestation. METHODS Transvaginal ultrasound examination was performed in 866 pregnancies at 6-10 weeks of gestation. The relation of demographic data and ultrasound findings at the time of the initial as...

BACKGROUND Mothers who attend antenatal care late miss the opportunity of early detection of HIV and STDs, malaria and anaemia prophylaxis, health education and treatment or prevention of complications. Whereas many women in Mulago hospital make their first antenatal care visit after 20 weeks of gestation, the reasons for coming late are not documented. The objectives were to determine the gest...

Background: Femur is a long bone that measures gestational age and contributes to human height weight, but can also be affected by growth retardation or skeletal abnormalities. Objective: To compare the effect of femur length on fetus using ultrasonography. Methods: The research was four-month crossectional study carried out in private hospital Tehsil Kharian, District Gujrat, Pakistan. Data ob...

introduction preterm birth is still a major health problem throughout the world. preterm birth results in 75% of neonatal mortality. we sought to identify risk factors which cause preterm birth. materials and methods this cross-sectional study assessed all preterm neonates born in asali hospital in khorram abad (either by nvd or c/s) during the first 6 months of 2007. sampling method was census...