BACKGROUND Small for gestational age (SGA) infants have been reported to be at higher risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). OBJECTIVE To compare the risk of SIDS among SGA and large for gestational age (LGA) infants with that of death from other causes of sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI) and the residual "other" causes of infant death. METHODS The 2002 US period infant bir...

CONTEXT High serum levels of TSH have been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes by some studies, and not by others. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess the association between high levels of TSH in the first trimester of pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes; and to examine the predictive accuracy as a screening test. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Serum levels of TSH were measu...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate perinatal and long-term complications of fetuses with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) compared with constitutionally small for gestational age (SGA) ones. STUDY DESIGN The outcome of infants with IUGR and SGA born at the Medical University Graz (Austria) between 2003 and 2009 was retrospectively analyzed. Group assignment was based o...

BACKGROUND Studies suggest that the neighbourhoods in which people live influence their health. The main objective of this study was to investigate the associations of neighbourhood-level income and unemployment/social security benefit on pregnancy outcomes: preterm delivery, small for gestational age (SGA), pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and miscarriage/perinatal death in Amsterdam. ME...

OBJECTIVES AND STUDY DESIGN The aim of this study was two-fold: to investigate the association of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and small newborn size, using standardized measures; and to examine within strata of fresh and cryopreserved embryos transfer, whether this association is influenced by parental infertility diagnoses. We used a population-based retrospective cohort from Michig...

INTRODUCTION Some small for gestational age (SGA) neonates have a higher weight gain rate than adequate for gestational age (AGA) neonates. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the postdischarge growth of a cohort of very low birthweight infants to determine the percentage of those born SGA that achieve catch-up growth and whether AGA infants maintain adequate growth. METHODS We perf...

Short small for gestational age (SGA) children represent 20% of all children with short stature and therefore constitute a significant portion of the caseload in a growth clinic. The recent approval of recombinant human growth hormone (GH) for the treatment of short stature in SGA children by the European Union's Committee on Proprietary Medicinal Products offers a new licensed therapeutic opti...

The efficacy and safety of 8 yr of GH treatment was assessed in 44 Japanese children with small for gestational age (SGA) short stature who met the criteria for GH treatment initiation (height SD score (SDS) <-2.5 SD) of the Japanese guidelines. Height SDS in subjects improved throughout the study period, and average height SDS improved from -3.5 to -1.6 and from -3.4 to -1.9 in the 0.033/0.067...