BACKGROUND The relationship between maternal and placental hemodynamic disorders and fetal growth is well known, but few studies have evaluated a link between maternal extracellular water (EW) and newborn birth weight. OBJECTIVE To identify the characteristics of body composition (BC) of women with small for gestational age (SGA) newborns, and to determine the relationship between maternal EW...

Inbred strains of mice are powerful models for understanding human pregnancy complications. For example, the exclusive mating of CBA/J females to DBA/2J males increases fetal resorption to 20-35% with an associated decline in placentation and maintenance of maternal Th1 immunity. More recently other complications of pregnancy, IUGR and preeclampsia, have been reported in this model. The aim of ...

PURPOSE This study determined which obesity measurement correlates the best with diabetes and prediabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study enrolled 1603 subjects (611 men, 992 women; age 30-64 years) at the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Etiology Research Center. Body mass index, waist circumference, waist-height ratio, waist-hip ratio, waist-thigh ratio, and visceral ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the mean, median and 10th and 90th percentile levels of fees and out-of-pocket costs to the patient for an initial consultation with a consultant physician; to determine any differences in fees and bulk-billing rates between specialties and between states and territories. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Analysis of 2015 Medicare claims data for an initial outpatient a...

PURPOSE To construct new Korean reference curves for birth weight by sex and gestational age using contemporary Korean birth weight data and to compare them with the Lubchenco and the 2010 United States (US) intrauterine growth curves. METHODS Data of 2,336,727 newborns by the Korean Statistical Information Service (2008-2012) were used. Smoothed percentile curves were created by the Lambda M...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated the cost of a diet that may prevent cardiovascular disease. High scores on the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) have been associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the cost of a dietary pattern that may prevent cardiovascular disease among women residing in the United States. DESIGN By using food-cost ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Malnutrition is related with pulmonary disease. The aim was to analyze the association of lung function respectively to nutritional status, identified pulmonary pathogens and socioeconomic condition of patients attending a pediatric CF reference center. METHODS Cross-sectional study performed with CF patients aged 6 to 18 years attending a CF-Center in southern Brazil. Nutri...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prognostic value of fetal Doppler in dichorionic twins and singletons by measuring the interval between diagnosis of an abnormal Doppler flow and birth in fetuses who are small for gestational age (SGA). DESIGN Comparative retrospective study using a prospectively collected database. SETTING A level 3 maternity unit in France. POPULATION Fetuses from singleton and...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) may be associated with significantly higher aortic intima-media thickening (aIMT) values. It is unknown if fetal aIMT is associated with glomerulosclerosis and amniotic albuminuria in utero. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, AND MEASUREMENTS Fetal abdominal aIMT and amniotic albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) were measured in 126 indivi...

Studies have shown important associations between low birth weight (BW), a variety of morbidities, and reduced motor performance. Using a twin sample, this study aimed to verify (a) the magnitude of the association between BW and neuromotor performance (NMP); (b) if the NMP of twins is within the normal range; and (c) if monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins' intra-pair similarities in NMP ...