BACKGROUND Healthy infants typically regain their birth weight by 21 days of age; however, failure to do so may be due to medical, nutritional or environmental factors. Globally, the incidence of low birth weight deliveries is high, but few studies have assessed the postnatal weight changes in this category of infants, especially in Africa. The aim was to determine what proportion of LBW infant...

Intrauterine growth and development is one of the most vulnerable process in the human life cycle and it’s aberrations can result in profound and lasting influence in later life. In the context of developing countries, intrauterine growth has been invariably assessed by birth weight. Although it may be reasonable to infer that fetuses who have experienced growth restriction in utero will be lig...

We studied the impact of maternal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on birth weight (BW), low birth weight (LBW), and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) according to self-reported maternal smoking habits in a sample of 6,866 singleton births. We obtained data about parental characteristics and maternal active smoking (AS) and passive smoking at delivery via maternal questionnair...

OBJECTIVE Preterm and low birth weight (LBW) infants are at greater risk of developing bilirubin-associated brain damage compared with term infants. Certainly, phototherapy, if used appropriately, is capable of controlling the bilirubin levels in LBW infants; but there is not a unique phototherapy treatment strategy in LBW infants. This study was designed to compare the prophylactic phototherap...

Background: Low birth weight (LBW) is one of the major determinants of neonatal survival as well as postnatal morbidity. Objective: The main objective of the present study was to determine neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in LBW infants in Yazd, Iran. Materials and Methods: In a prospective-cohort study, all births in the maternity hospitals of Yazd, Iran in 2004 were evaluated and mortality rate ...

Low Birth Weight (LBW) is one of the public health problems. It becomes single risk factor for early neonatal mortality and morbidity. The high number LBW cases affects baby’s in future, including infants’ slow growth, impaired cognitive development, susceptibility to diseases, such as disorders respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, kidney systems. also causes increased morbidity morta...