Sentences with phrase «effect on birth weight»

Additionally, further research is needed to focus on how folic acid supplementation produces its effect on birth weight and how the dose of supplementation can be optimised in women considered to be at higher risk of SGA, state the authors.

The calorie deficit had little effect on the birth weight of their offspring, but the dieting ewes gave birth about a week early — significant in an animal whose full term is about 21 weeks.

Smoking and passive smoking during pregnancy and early infancy: effects on birth weight, lactation period, and cotinine concentrations in mother's milk and infant's urine.

HFA had a favorable effect on low birth weight.41 The standard implementation of NFP with nurse home visitors did not demonstrate any effects on birth weight or preterm births.35, 42 — 47 However, when paraprofessional home visitors were used, a favorable effect on low birth weight was shown.46 EIP demonstrated no effects on birth weight or the percentage of infants born premature.23 The remaining 9 programs, most of which were offered postnatally and thus would not be expected to affect birth outcomes, did not report any results in this area.

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Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

Thus, although adjustment was made for the effect of birth weight, the effect on postnatal growth could be of prenatal onset.

Ruthii, can medications or fluids that a mother receives in labor or in preparation for a cesarean birth effect baby's birth weight and therefore be perceived at weight loss later on?

Persistent beneficial effects of breast milk ingested in the neonatal intensive care unit on outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants at 30 months of age.

➡ Compared to usual care, providing additional social support during an at - risk pregnancy probably has little or no effect on the incidence of low birth weight, preterm births, or perinatal deaths.

Lactation counselling for mothers of very low birth weight infants: Effect on maternal anxiety and infant intake of human milk

The PhD course focuses on various aspects of human (donor) milk, with as main study a randomized clinical trial towards the effects of human donor milk in very low birth weight infants (the Early Nutrition Study).

He works of the evolution of gut flora in extremely preterm infants, its impact on the health of very low birth weight infants and the effects of probiotics supplementation.

The effects on the mother and baby can vary, ranging from blood loss and low birth weight to maternal death and stillbirth.

Beneficial effects of breast milk in the neonatal intensive care unit on the developmental outcome of extremely low birth weight infants at 18 months of age.

An understanding of the effects of birth weight and gestational age on the regulation of infant growth by genetic and environmental effects may assist in tailoring research, counseling, and possibly interventions in infant growth to specific subgroups in which attaining a health benefit is more likely.

The first major trial assessing the effect on fertility of lifestyle adjustment in obese women was published earlier this year and found that a weight - loss intervention preceding fertility treatment did not result in higher rates of healthy singleton birth within 24 months.

Because of the beneficial effect of corticosteroids on lung function, especially in infants who are ventilator dependent, corticosteroids are, at times, administered to very low birth weight neonates to treat established or evolving lung disease.

«It's well - documented that smoking cigarettes while pregnant leads to a range of negative health effects on fetuses, including increased risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery, and greater rates of asthma and learning disabilities,» she says.

However, health authorities and funding agencies should provide the means to answer questions concerning the effects of genetics, mode of conception, foetal growth patterns and birth weights on the fertility of ICSI men,» he said.

Researchers from Norway and Canada used data from The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and The Medical Birth Registry of Norway to measure the effect of SSRIs and maternal depression on birth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effBirth Registry of Norway to measure the effect of SSRIs and maternal depression on birth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effbirth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effects.

«Low birth weight and preterm birth have been proposed as risk factors in schizophrenia in general, but past studies have not shown a large effect on risk,» says Dr. Bassett, who is also the Director of the Clinical Genetics Research Program at CAMH.

A similar analysis of 690 Filipino women revealed no such difference (Kuzawa is now conducting a follow - up study to see if there are any long - term effects of early nutrition on the birth weight of these women's offspring.)

Pills that pack on pounds Weight gain can be an unwelcome side effect of some drugs, including anti-depressants, steroids, and, more rarely, birth - control pills (due to a temporary increase in water retention).

«The findings suggest an effect of birth weight differences on development of subsequent conduct problems,» researchers led by Dr. David Mankuta of Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital in Jerusalem, said in a news release.

Although estrogen, a key component in most forms of hormonal birth control, doesn't directly cause weight gain, it might be the reason a woman doesn't feel as full after she eats — thanks to estrogen's effect on hormones that affect appetite, explains nutritionist Alisa Vitti, founder of FLOliving.com.

Protein powder can have an effect on pregnancy — A study on mice found that a high protein diet led to smaller birth weight than a low protein / high carbohydrate diet (24).

Late effects of early dietary protein intake on low - birth - weight infants.

Clinical effects of two different levels of protein intake on low - birth - weight infants.

[3] Effect of birth control pills and patches on weight.

We make use of a new data resource, merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002, to study the effects of birth weight on cognitive development from kindergarten through schooling.

Using twin fixed effects models, we find that the effects of birth weight on cognitive development are essentially constant through the school career; that these effects are very similar across a wide range of family backgrounds; and that they are invariant to measures of school quality.

Hu, Zihan and Li, Teng (2016): Too hot to hold: the effects of high temperatures during pregnancy on birth weight and adult welfare outcomes.

Associations between low birth weight and each of the health outcomes were demonstrable, as has been previously indicated for adult health15 and mental well - being.18 These effects, however, were strongly attenuated on adjustment for other childhood measures, particularly for the mental health outcome.

Children who experience poverty, particularly during early life or for an extended period, are at risk of a host of adverse health and developmental outcomes through their life course.1 Poverty has a profound effect on specific circumstances, such as birth weight, infant mortality, language development, chronic illness, environmental exposure, nutrition, and injury.

Logistic regression analyses were conducted to estimate the effect of maternal IPV on asthma diagnosed by age 36 months while adjusting for potential confounders (child's sex, age, race / ethnicity, low birth weight, maternal education, economic hardship, and tobacco exposure).

Although most outcomes were reviewed at program completion to observe the effects of a high - intensity comprehensive treatment program for low - birth - weight infants, 39 certain outcomes were examined after the first year and provide a test of the home - visiting component on its own.40

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

Most women know all too well that being on birth control means having to put up with a few side effects, including potential weight gain, nausea, and mood changes.

To investigate whether birth weight exerted differential effects on brain development at different ages, age and birth weight variables were standardized to the whole sample, and regression analyses with these variables, along with their interaction term (birth weight × age), sex, household income, GAF, and scanner, were repeated.

Conjoined effects of low birth weight and childhood abuse on adaptation and well - being in adolescence and adulthood

Decades of research have established that extreme child birth weight may have long - term effects on developmental processes.

The effect of birth - weight with genetic susceptibility on depressive symptoms in childhood and adolescence

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.

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.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

We analyzed all children born in Sweden between 1983 and 2009 to investigate the effect of SDP on multiple indicators of adverse outcomes in three areas: pregnancy outcomes (birth weight, preterm birth and being born small for gestational age), long - term cognitive abilities (low academic achievement and general cognitive ability) and externalizing behaviors (criminal conviction, violent criminal conviction and drug misuse).