The Jornal de Pediatria published, in its 91st volume, a very interesting article entitled: ‘‘Growth of preterm low birth weight infants until 24 months corrected age: effect of maternal hypertension.’’ The authors tackled a very important issue in the context of infant and maternal health worldwide, mainly considering the impact of the gestational period on the offspring’s health and disease p...

Background
 Nicotine consumption during pregnancy and advanced maternal age are well known independent risk factors for poor outcome therefore serious public health problems.
 Objectives
 Considering the ongoing trend of delaying childbirth in our society, this study investigates potential additive effects nicotine on foetal growth.
 Sample Methods
 In a medical record-...

OBJECTIVE To investigate perinatal predictors of newborn blood pressure. STUDY DESIGN Among 1059 mothers and their newborn infants participating in Project Viva, a US cohort study of pregnant women and their offspring, we obtained five systolic blood pressure readings on a single occasion in the first few days of life. Using multivariate linear regression models, we examined the extent to whi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between extremes of maternal age (≤17 years or ≥40 years) and delivery outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Urban maternity hospital in Ireland. POPULATION A total of 36 916 nulliparous women with singleton pregnancies who delivered between 2000 and 2011. METHODS The study population was subdivided into five maternal age groups based...

objective: to determine the effect of paternal age on preterm births in iranian neonates. materials and methods: from january 2005 to january 2006, two hundred eighty one preterm neonates born in mirza kuchakkhan hospital enrolled in this cross-sectional study. a structured questionnaire was applied for recording following data: birth weight, sex, gestational age, maternal age and paternal age....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of a one-stop clinic for assessment of risk (OSCAR) for trisomy 21 by a combination of maternal age, fetal nuchal translucency (NT) thickness and maternal serum free beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) at 11-14 weeks of gestation. METHOD Screening for trisomy 21 was carried out by OSCAR in 15 030 sing...

We studied the effects of maternal age on fitness of progeny in the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Five-, 20-, and 50-d-old female rice weevils were used to study the effects of maternal age on the lifetime fecundity and longevity of their daughters. In addition, we determined the effects of maternal age on the weight and survivorship of daughters' progeny. Daugh...