background: this study aimed to assess the incidence and survival rates of neonates weighing less than 2500g for duration of the first 28 days in an iranian community. methods: in this prospective longitudinal study, all neonates with birth weight less than 2500g were selected from the list of all neonates born in the only public-sector referral hospital, for a six months period. the weight of ...

background and purpose: women with low (high) pre-pregnancy body mass index (bmi) recently delivered infants with approximately normal or close to normal birth weights under the high quality of prenatal care. this study estimated the effect of pre-pregnancy bmi when concerns about the effects of different quality levels of prenatal care and the health status of mothers and their infants existed...

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...

developmental millstones in children with normal, low, and very low birth weights.     abdeyazdan z [1] , ehsanpour s [2] *, hemmati e [3]     received: 22 may , 2013 accepted: 11 sep , 2013   abstract   background & aims : in recent years with the development of nicus, survival rates of vlbw and lbw infants has increased in many countries including iran. there is concern that this increased su...

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...

Hepatoblastomas among children with very low birth weights have significantly increased recently, according to the data from the Japan Children's Cancer Registry for the years 1985-1993. We then analyzed more Registry data for 1969-1994 to clarify the possible relationship between low birth weight and hepatoblastoma. The percentage of low birth weights was compared between 543 hepatoblastoma ch...