OBJECTIVE To study the role of birth weight, nutrition, immunization and other medical as well as social factors in determining child survival. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING 45 villages in Shirur Development Block in Pune District in Maharashtra. METHODS A cohort of 4129 children were followed from birth till 5 years of age. Weight and length/height of the child was measured ...

AIM To assess the relative effect of birth weight and gestational age on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) using preterm twin pairs discordant for birth weigh in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in China. METHODS Fifty-six discordant twin pairs of 112 preterm infants were retrospectively analyzed. The twin pairs were divided into two subgroups based on birth weight in each pair. The occ...

PURPOSE to evaluate the correlation between the estimated fetal weight (EFW) by ultrasonography and the neonatal weight (NW), as well as the EFW's capacity to predict changes in NW among pregnant women in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. METHODS a diagnostic validation study, including 122 pregnant women who have had the EFW calculated by ultrasonography up to seven days before delivery and the ...

Background Advances in the perinatal and neonatal cares have brought about considerable reductions in the neonatal mortality. The present study aimedto determine the disease patterns, outcomes and factors influencing the neonatal mortality in single neonatal intensive care unit. Materials and Methods This descriptive research was retrospective and cross-sectional in type. The study population e...

Background Preterm birth is the most important factor in neonatal morbidity and mortality. In the case of pregnancy with assisted reproductive technology (ART) we have more percentage of multiple pregnancies which is a strong reason for preterm birth and low birth weight so suggested that ART can affect neonatal outcomes. In this article we searched about neonatal outcomes in ART pregnancies. M...

The prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide, and the rates have more than doubled since 1980 (1). World Health Organization (WHO) defines overweight and obesity as “abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health” (1). Body Mass Index (BMI) is commonly used to classify overweight (BMI 25.0–29.9 kg/m2), obesity (BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m2), and super obesity (BMI ≥ 40.0 kg/m2) (2). WHO...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between the expression of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in neonatal umbilical cord blood and abnormal glucose metabolism during pregnancy. PATIENTS AND METHODS We have selected 63 cases of delivery randomly, term birth and maternal from January 2015 to January 2016 in our hospital, gestational diabetes mellitus for Group A, abnormal gestational glu...

CONTEXT Intrauterine growth curves are extremely useful for classifying newborn children and predicting neonatal diseases. However, such curves rely on knowledge of the gestational age, which is not always easily obtained. Therefore, the study of other anthropometric measurements and their interrelationship is always desirable, in order to attain such objectives. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether...