background: maternal nutrition during pregnancy affects the birth weight of neonates. some of the undesirable pregnancy outcomes are linked to lower birth weights. this study aimed to assess the relationship between maternal dietary patterns, weight gain during pregnancy and nitric oxide (no), as an endothelial relaxing factor, and the possible effects on birth weight.materials and methods: at ...

background: this research aimed to examine the methods of measuring the womb height and mother's abdomen circumference to estimate infant's weight at birth time. methods: in this cross-sectional descriptive-correlative research, 1070 mothers with term pregnancy (and their infants) who referred to isfahan maternities were assessed. questionnaire, demographic data form, patient's medical files an...

background: previous studies have shown that meconium staining of the amniotic fluid may affect maternal and neonatal outcomes. in this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between birth weight and meconium passage and its related factors in pregnant women.materials and methods: this matched case control study was conducted on a total of 200 newborns (100 as cases and 100 as controls...

back ground anemia in pregnancy is associated with increased rates of maternal and perinatal mortality, premature delivery, low birth weight, and other adverse outcomes materials and methods a prospective study was conducted on 1405 iranian pregnant women who delivered during 2015. blood was collected from all the subjects to measure the hemoglobin (hb) during 16-19 weeks, 22-24 weeks, and 34-3...

conclusions in both models, mothers’ employment had a negative effect on children’s health at birth; i.e. mothers’ employment increased the possibility of low birth weight due to malnutrition in children. however, mother’s education had a positive effect on children’s health at birth; i.e. an increase mothers’ education will decrease the possibility of children’s low birth weight. “family size”...

background: ninety-five percent of low birth weight infants are born in developing countries. this study was aimed to assess the predictors of low birth in east azerbaijan, north-west province of iran. materials and methods: the study was conducted through a hospital based case–control design involving 49 women delivering low birth weight infants and 98 delivering normal weight infants. the dat...

the objective of the present study was to estimate genetic parameters and genetic trends of growth traits , fleece weight and reproductive traits. data collected from 1993 to 2007 by the kermani breeding station were analyzed .traits were included birth weight (bw, n=2614), 3 months weight (3mw,n=2312), 6 months weight (6mw, n=1890), 9 months weight (9mw,n=1380) and 12 months weight (12mw,n=105...

Introduction: Anemia is common in both age groups of 9-24 months and adolescence. Considering the fact that anemia in children is associated with various complications such as stunted growth, activity intolerance, behavioral changes, inattention, irritability and changes in the immune response, the aim of this study was to compare the frequency of anemia in infants with normal birth weight and ...

background: low birth weight (lbw) is one of the major determinants of neonatal survival as well as postnatal morbidity. objective: the main objective of the present study was to determine neonatal mortality rate (nmr) in lbw infants in yazd, iran. materials and methods: in a prospective-cohort study, all births in the maternity hospitals of yazd, iran in 2004 were evaluated and mortality rate ...

conclusions not using iron supplementation did not cause of anemia in women with hb concentrations greater than 13.2 g/dl during pregnancy; thus, the systematic care and control of iron status markers without iron supplementation is recommended for these women. results there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in hb (p = 0/03) and ferritin (p = 0/04) levels at the ...