Low birth weight is associated with ESRD. To identify specific growth patterns in early life that may be related to kidney function in later life, we examined the associations of longitudinally measured fetal and infant growth with kidney function in school-aged children. This study was embedded in a population-based prospective cohort study among 6482 children followed from fetal life onward. ...

PURPOSE This study was to evaluate the accuracy and clinical application of a new technique in the fetal weight estimation by ultrasound. METHODS The fetal biparietal diameter (BPD), head circumference (HC) and femur length (FL) were measured by ultrasound examination within one week before delivery. Two different fetal abdominal sectors were measured for the assessment of abdominal circumfer...

BACKGROUND Clinical fetal weight estimation is a common practice in obstetrics. This study aims to evaluate the accuracy of fetal weight estimation by midwives, and to identify factors that may lead to overestimation or underestimation of fetal weight. METHODS A cohort prospective study in a Lebanese university hospital, included weight estimation of singleton pregnancies above 35 weeks. Mult...

Background: Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), that is, an estimated fetal weight less than ten percent of the standard weight for gestational age, is one of the important challenges in modern obstetrics, the management and treatment of which is cause-dependent. Given the lack of an accepted treatment for these patients, this study aimed to introduce a treatment commonly u...

INTRODUCTION Birthweight is used as an indicator of intrauterine growth, and determinants of birthweight are widely studied. Less is known about determinants of deviating patterns of growth in utero. We aimed to study the effects of maternal characteristics on both birthweight and fetal growth in third trimester and introduce placental weight as a possible determinant of both birthweight and fe...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether some offspring of women with diabetes are intrinsically more active than others in utero and whether those who are active are able to normalize their birth weight despite maternal hyperglycemia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a three-phase study to view the relationship between fetal movements and subsequent birth weight in women with diabetes. Phase I...

This special section on stress and reproduction is devoted to an emerging frontier in interdisciplinary research that merits the attention of health psychologists. The majority of the studies concern the role of stress and emotion on birth outcomes such as low birth weight, fetal growth and preterm delivery, or mechanisms underlying these findings. The implications of this research extend from ...