background and aims:the most common reason in neonatal mortality rate in the world is low birth weight (lbw). the objective of our study was to determine the prevalence and related factors associated in birth weight in garmsar, iran in 2013. methods: this cross sectional study was carried out on 683 live births which delivered in garmsar in 2013. the required information was collected by examin...

Under nutrition in mothers is a major factor which results abnormal or reduced growth of fetus, low birth weight (LBW), neonatal illness and infant death Objective: To determine the association dietary factors with neonates Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 mothers, divided into 2 groups, one having normal (NW) infants other LBW infants. Data regarding their habits anthro...

Abstract Background Low birthweight (LBW) infants are at higher risk of mortality and morbidity (growth, chronic disease neurological problems) during their life. Due to the high incidence (pre-) eclampsia in Haiti, LBW common. We assessed anthropometric growth (weight length) neurodevelopmental delay normal (NBW) born an obstetric emergency hospital Port au Prince, between 2014 2017. Methods I...

OBJECTIVE Motor development is frequently reported to be impaired in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, but little is known about the moderately low birth weight (MLBW) infants. The aim of this study was to investigate whether MLBW preterm infants present developmental delay. METHODS In a historical cohort study, 18±2 month-old infants with a history of low birth weight (LBW) were identifi...

BACKGROUND Morbidity and mortality rates of low birth weight (LBW) newborns at term are higher than rates in normal birth weight (NBW) newborns. LBW newborns are at greater risk to acquire recurrent bacterial and viral infections during their first few weeks of life possibly as an outcome of compromised innate immune functions. As adaptive immunity is in a naive state, increased risk of infecti...

Clinical trials of micronutrient supplementation are aimed at reducing the risk of infant mortality by increasing birth weight. Because infant mortality is greatest among the low birth weight (LBW) infants (2500 g or under), an effective intervention increases the birth weight among the smallest babies. The paper defines population and counterfactual parameters for estimating the treatment effe...

Cerebral palsy (CP) consists of a wide range of lifetime physical disabilities caused by damage to the brain during intrauterine and early neonatal life. The risk of CP is increased among survivors of prematurity and in low-birthweight (LBW) infants. Increased prematurity and LBW rates are more common in multifoetal pregnancies, therefore, these pregnancies have also been associated with increa...

BACKGROUND The global Low Birth Weight (LBW) rate is reported to be 15.5% with more than 95% of these LBW infants being from developing countries. LBW is a major factor associated with neonatal deaths in developing countries. The determinants of low birth weight in Nepal have rarely been studied. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with small size at birth among under-five child...

INTRODUCTION The aims of the study are (i) to understand inter-zone and interstate variation of low birth weight (LBW) and (ii) to determine the key variables to reduce LBW in India. METHODS Using the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data of 2005-06 which showed the percentage distribution of LBW infants, ANOVA and post-hoc test were performed to determine the spatial variation of ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the association between maternal low birth weight (LBW) and adverse perinatal outcomes and to discriminate between confounders and mediating factors of these associations in a population-based birth cohort of Southern Brazil. METHODS Data from 794 female members of the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study known to have delivered a live-born singleton offspring up to December 2...