INTRODUCTION This study aimed to determine the prevalence of asthma-like symptoms among schoolchildren with low birth weight (LBW), and to compare the lung function of these children with that of children with normal birth weight. METHODS This was a comparative cross-sectional study. We recruited children aged 8-11 years from eight primary schools in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. The childr...

Introduction: The idea that factors during early critical periods of life affect on long term health is now a major public health concern. In this study, in addition to investigating obesity prevalence among female high school students in Yazd, the relationship between obesity and birth weight was examined. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted on 312 female high scho...

BACKGROUND Measurements of adolescents who at birth were large (long and/or heavy) for gestational age are scant. OBJECTIVES To determine the correlation between birth length and weight in female and male neonates born long and/or overweight for gestational age, with their height and weight at age 17. METHODS We reviewed the records of the Rabin Medical Center for birth data of 96 full-term...

Dear Editor-in-Chief The recent report on “The Adverse Effects of Pregnancies Complicated by Hemoglobin H (HBH) Disease” is very interesting (1). Rabiee et al. reported a pregnant case complicated with HBH disease. Indeed, this problem might not common in the Middle East but it is very common in Southeast Asia. The authors hereby would like to share the experience on this top...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association of birth weight with incident type 2 diabetes, and the possible mediating influence of obesity, in a large cohort of U.S. black women. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Black Women's Health Study is an ongoing prospective study. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% CI for categories of birth weight (very low...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between birth weight and measured intelligence at age 7 years in children within the normal range of birth weight and in siblings. DESIGN Cohort study of siblings of the same sex. SETTING 12 cities in the United States. SUBJECTS 3484 children of 1683 mothers in a birth cohort study during the years 1959 through 1966. The sample was restricted to children ...

The birth injuries are avoidable and unavoidable mechanical or anoxic trauma incurred by the infant at birth and this study aims to know the birth injuries in neonates attended Neonatal OPD / admitted in NICU of Government General Hospital, Kurnool. This study is a hospital based prospective cohort study conducted from March 2013 to February 2014. The babies were examined for birth injuries, re...

We seem to have spent the last few years reeling from assault after assault on the concept of normal birth. Have you wondered, as I have, what is going on? Why is our side of the story nowhere to be heard? Why, for example, isn't the rising cesarean rate—which translates into about half a million unnecessary major operations per year at a cost of over $1 billion to our health care system—consid...