One of the causes infant death outside womb is hyperbilirubinemia. This hyperbilirubinemia a clinical phenomenon often found in newborns first week life. In laboratory examination, determination hemoglobin level an indicator that widely used to determine prevalence anemia. study uses observation method with descriptive approach. The data collection this research was carried out at RSIA Pertiwi ...

Objective: to estimate the prevalence and verify factors associated with low birth weight in full-term newborns. Methods: this is a retrospective study conducted 24,744 Data were retrieved from Sistema de Informação sobre Nascidos Vivos (Information System on Live Births). For analysis, multiple logistic regression was used using hierarchical model maternal, gestational, care variables. Results...

BACKGROUND In recent years, a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency amongst pregnant women and newborns has been observed throughout several regions of the world, especially in the presence of preeclampsia (PE) or obesity (OB). The aim of this study was to investigate whether nonobese and obese preeclamptic pregnant women and their newborns have low 25(OH)D compared with nonobese and obese no...

BACKGROUND Inuit women from Northern Québec have been shown to consume inadequate quantities of vitamin A. This study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of blood vitamin A deficiency in newborns from 3 distinct populations of the province of Québec. METHODS 594 newborns were included in this study (375 Inuit newborns from northern Québec (Nunavik), 107 Caucasian and Native newborns from...

Abstract Objectives: Controversial findings exist regarding the association between neonate gender and umbilical cord blood lipid levels. This study aims to compare the levels of lipids and lipoprotein B-100 in the umbilical cord blood of male and female newborns and assess the impact of these factors on neonatal anthropometric measurements. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on ...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy is associated with some adverse pregnancy outcomes but its relationship with fetal growth is unknown. OBJECTIVE We compared the 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels between mothers and their small for gestational age (SGA) newborns with mothers and their appropriate for gestational age (AGA) newborns. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population include...

AIM To assess the diagnostic value of amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (EEG) in comparison to standard EEG in newborns without severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy who were at risk for seizures. METHODS The study included a consecutive series of 18 term newborns without severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, but with clinical signs suspicious of epileptic seizures, history of lo...

Cord blood represents a link between intrauterine and early extrauterine development. cells map an important time frame in human immune imprinting processes. It is unknown whether the sex of newborn affects lymphocyte subpopulations cord blood. Nine B twenty-one T cell were characterized using flow cytometry from sixteen male female newborns, respectively. Except for transitional naïve cells, f...