Sentences with phrase «birth weight children»

It is also worth noting that people have gum disease while they are pregnant have been shown to increase the chances of giving birth to low birth weight children.

The good news is that parents and doctors can put this information to use, by helping low - birth weight children build as much bone mass as possible as they grow and develop, through diet and exercise.

Prevalence, stability, predictors of clinically significant behavior problems in low birth weight children at 3, 5, and 8 years of age

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.

Dr Newham added: «There is a growing body of evidence that maternal antenatal anxiety may increase the risk of pre-term delivery and the likelihood of giving birth to a low birth weight child.

Aarnoudse - Moens, C. S. H., 2009, Meta - analysis of neurobehavioral outcomes in very preterm and, or very low birth weight children, Pediatrics 124 (2): 717 ~ 728