Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital. S.P. Botkin has been providing assistance to pregnant women and newborns suffering from COVID-19 since the beginning of pandemic. In period April 2020 2022, 550 born mothers varying severity were observed in hospital, which 52 children had a registered diagnosis (the SARS-CoV-2 virus was identified swab nasopharynx newborn using PCR). this paper, an analys...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to provide insight into the determinants of low birth weight (LBW) in Italy. METHODS The study was carried out in a non-teaching hospital in Catanzaro (Italy). All LBW and very LBW newborns (200) were included in the study and a random sample of 400 newborns weighing > or = 2500 g was selected. Data were collected from the delivery certificates during o...

SCOPE Epidemiologic data reveal associations between low serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and higher risk of falls and muscle weakness. Fetal stage is critical for the development of skeletal muscle, but little information is available on the impact of maternal vitamin D deficiency on muscles of offspring. METHODS AND RESULTS To investigate the morphology and transcriptom...

Iron deficiency anemia among pregnant women is a widespread problem in developing countries including Ethiopia, though its influence on neonatal iron status was inconsistently reported in literature. This cross-sectional study was conducted to compare hematologic profiles and iron status of newborns from mothers with different anemia status and determine correlation between maternal and neonata...

This study seeks to determine whether newborns are sensitive to an operant-conditioning task involving an unprepared relation between a response and a stimulus. The High-Amplitude Sucking procedure, which is based on such a relation by reinforcing nonnutritive sucking with auditory stimulation, was used. In order to verify that newborns learn the contingency between sucks and sounds in the HAS ...