BACKGROUND In Africa low birth weight (LBW) (<2500 g), is the strongest determinant of infant morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of maternal anthropometry, education and socio-economic status on gestational age and birth weight. METHODS In 1000 Sudanese mothers with singleton births, anthropometric measurements (weight, height, mid-arm circumference) and...

Background & Aims: Maternal anemia in pregnancy is a considerable risk factor for both mother and fetus. Growth retardation, intra uterine fetal death, maternal cardiovascular symptoms and reduction in blood supply are among outcomes of maternal anemia. Since there are different reports about the relationship between low maternal hemoglobin level and low birght weight, the precent study was des...

to evaluate the effect of nano-iron chelate and also to make a comparison with effect of eddha iron chelate on saffron, an experiment was conducted as factorial based on a randomized complete block design with six treatments and three replications in shahed university, tehran in 2011 and 2012. treatments included iron fertilizer (nano chelate and common chelate) in three levels (zero, 450 and 9...

genetic analysis of growth traits including body weight recorded at birth (bwt), 3 (3bwt), 6 (6bwt), 9 (9bwt) and 12 (12bwt) months of age was carried out using 4107 records on raieni cashmere goats born from 206 sires and 1402 dams, during years 1992 to 2006. the records were collected from a resource flock in baft research station, situated in kerman province, iran. the importance of addition...

INTRODUCTION Maternal nutritional and metabolic factors influence the developmental environment of the fetus. Virtually any nutritional factor in the maternal blood has to pass the placental membranes to reach the fetal blood. Placental weight is a commonly used measure to summarize placental growth and function. Placental weight is an independent determinant of fetal growth and birthweight and...

(co) variance components and genetic parameters for growth traits in arman sheep were estimated, using data collected during an 11-year period (1999-2010), by applying the restricted maximum likelihood (reml) procedure under univariate and bivariate animal models. the studied traits were body weight of lamb at birth (bw), body weight at 3 months of age as weaning weight (ww), body weight at 6 m...

Ethnic differences in birth weight, a predictor of developmental outcomes and health, have remained largely unexplained. Using data collected by the US National Center of Health Statistics, we first cross-tabulate birth weight according to whether the mother or father was African American, European American, Native American, or Mexican American. Results confirm findings from other studies indic...