BACKGROUND Low birth weight is associated with an increased risk of neonatal and infant mortality and morbidity, as well as with other adverse conditions later in life. Since the birth weight-specific mortality of a second child depends on the birth weight of an older sibling, a failure to achieve the biologically intended size appears to increase the risk of adverse outcome even in babies who ...

Background: purpose of this study was to determine prevalence maternal and social risk factors low birth weight. The is weight.Methods: cross-sectional comparative carried out by reviewing medical records newborn delivered for one year in 250 newborn. Birth weight categorized into two as (birth <2500 grams), considered cases, normal ≥2500 controls or the reference weight.Results: In our moth...

considering the fact that early hypocalcemia is the most common type of neonatal hypocalcemia which manifests during the first few days of iife (72 hours) and that hypocalcemia in low birth weight neonates is very common, this descriptive study on hypocalcemia was conducted to determine the frequency of hypocalcemia in low birth weight neonates in the city of kashan in the first 9 months of the...

introduction: like other measures of human development, dental development is not in complete accordance to chronological age. investigations show that dental age can be affected by gender, race, systemic conditions, and some other factors and consequently, be different in people of the same chronological age. a correct estimation of dental age and its development in children is of great import...

The prevalence of T2DM is increasing around the world on a yearly basis. A meta-analysis was conducted to analyze the association between birth weight and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). A literature search was performed from January 1990 to June 2016 in PubMed, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database. After r...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between large birth weight and the risk of developing asthma in early childhood. METHODS All single live births (n=687 194) born in Ontario between 1 April 1995 and 31 March 2001 were followed until their sixth birthday. Their birth weight was categorised as low (<2.5 kg), normal (2.5-4.5 kg), large (4.6-6.5 kg) or extremely large (>6.5 kg). Poisson regr...