low birth weight ( lbw, birth weight<2500g) is a significant health problem of children. many studies have made it apparent that there is a direct relationship between low birth weight and infant motality. one of the most important measurements to prevent children morbidity is growth monitoring and the present study was set up to compare the growth indexes of 2 year old children born with low w...

background: birth weight is considered as the most important index of neonates' growth as well as the most important determinant of infants' mortality. this study was conducted to investigate the growth pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates for 18 months in the health care centers of isfahan, iran. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional and retrospective study, 214 neon...

introduction: low birth weight (lbw, birth weight<2500g) is a significant health problem in children all around the world. there is a direct relationship between low birth weight and infant mortality rate. one of the most important measures to prevent childhood morbidity is growth monitoring. the present study was planned to compare the growth rate of lbw neonates with those weighing 2500g and ...

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the growth status of very low birth infant at corrected age of two years. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on all babies with birth weight ≤1500 gr without any congenital anomalies, genetic disturbance and chronic disease (e.g. cardiopulmonary insufficiency, cholestasis, malabsorption). They were called at corrected age 2 year...

background: low birth weight (lbw or birth weight <2500 g) is one of the most serious health problems in today's world. objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate growth parameters of neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) admitted lbw preterm neonates at corrected ages of 6 and 12 months. materials and methods: in a prospective cohort (follow up) study, all lbw preterm neonates whom wer...

background: about 21 millions premature and low birth weight (lbw) infants are born in the world every year where the majority of them are in the middle east countries. the literatures have shown that lbw infants and premature infants have a smaller chance to survive than the normal ones. this research carried out to determine the situation of catch up growth of lbw infants in comparison with n...

background : twin pregnancies are commonly associated with low birth weight (lbw) infants. most studies focus on growth of lbw compared with normal infants in singleton. however, there has not been any study on twins to com-pare lbw with normal birth weight (nbw) infants as a match control of the same twin. methods : this cohort study was conducted at healthcare centers of kashan, in 2013. twin...

background: the association between maternal smoking and poor pregnancy outcome, which is well established in medi­cal literature, has also been corroborated by the results of this study conducted in a turkish hospital. our objective was to investi­gate the effects of cigarette smoking during pregnancy on infant head circumference, height, weight, and body mass in­dex (bmi). methods: in this re...

introduction low birth weight (lbw) is the most common cause of neonatal death in developing countries. the objective of our study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with low birth weight in ardabil, iranfrom 2010 to 2011.methods in a case–control study all live newborns were weighted without clothing using a standard calibrated scale. gestational age was calculated usi...