The aim of this analysis was to construct cross-sectional gestational age specific percentile curves for birthweight, length, head and mid-arm circumference for Malawian babies, and to compare these percentiles with reference values for babies born to women with normal pregnancies, from a developed country. A cross-sectional study which enrolled pregnant women attending two study hospitals betw...

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...

OBJECTIVES To construct a clinical management matrix using serial fetal abdominal circumference measurements (ACMs) that will predict normal birth weight in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes (GDM) and reduce unnecessary ultrasound examination in women with GDM. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of 144 women with GDM in a specialist obstetric-diabetes clinic. Women with GDM...

BACKGROUND Studies of very low-birth-weight (VLBW) children discharged from neonatal intensive care units have shown delays in receipt of routine childhood immunizations. However, a recent study of VLBW children in 3 health maintenance organizations found no significant delays in immunizations. OBJECTIVE To assess the risk of immunization delays for moderately low-birth-weight (MLBW; 1500 g-2...

background : twin pregnancies are commonly associated with low birth weight (lbw) infants. most studies focus on growth of lbw compared with normal infants in singleton. however, there has not been any study on twins to com-pare lbw with normal birth weight (nbw) infants as a match control of the same twin. methods : this cohort study was conducted at healthcare centers of kashan, in 2013. twin...

Motor skills are always considered as one of the effective factors on human activities. The purpose of this research is to study the role of birth order and birth weight in the static and dynamic balance of boys aged 9-11 years old. 94 male students have been evaluated in this research. The personal information questionnaire and medical records were used to acquire data pertaining to birth or...

extract  in this study, position of fetus were examined in the different weeks of pregnancy and their association with fetus presentation in during labor. the study group included women who had normal condition. the aim of this study include:   1- to determine the distribution normal position of fetus before birth.   2- to determine the possibility of concurrent position of fetus in during preg...