Sentences with phrase «preterm births a year»

«In the United States, we have approximately 500,000 preterm births a year,» said Stefan Blüml, Ph.D., director of the New Imaging Technology Lab at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and associate professor of research radiology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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There are approximately 1500 low birth weight babies in Ontario a year and 70 % of preterm babies in hospitals across Ontario don't have access to a full supply of their mother's own milk, leaving them with reduced vital nutrients and protective properties.

The efforts of March of Dimes have helped reduce the U.S. preterm birth rate for the past 7 years, saving an estimated $ 12 billion in health care costs!

Association Between Moderate and Late Preterm Birth and Neurodevelopment and Social - Emotional Development at Age 2 Years.

The preterm birth rate declined in the United States for the seventh straight year to 11.39 percent of births in 2013.

More late preterm babies have been born in recent years because of increased maternal age at birth, multiples, IVF (in vitro fertilization), cesarean sections, inductions, and the wish to avoid post-term problems (42 + weeks).

-- it must be because preterm births were included — it must be a fluke year....

On the other hand, maternity leave, which is very important for breastfeeding support, is well - established in Germany: 14 weeks fully paid maternity leave (6 weeks before the birth, 8 weeks after the birth or 12 weeks for preterm or multiple birth), 12 months parental leave with 65 % of the mother's salary (partly paid for by health insurance companies and partly by employers) and unpaid parental leave until the child is 3 years old.

Almost one million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth.

Maternal characteristics and first - and second - trimester aneuploidyscreening analytes were analyzed using logistic binomial regression.Placental abruption was more frequent among women ofAsian race, age older than 34 years, women with chronic andpregnancy - associated hypertension, preeclampsia, preexisting diabetes, previous preterm birth, and interpregnancy interval less than 6 months.

Umbilical cord milking benefits for preterm babies and cesarian birth deliveries has been gaining some recognition in the medical community in recent years.

There are also risks to pregnancies spaced 5 + years apart, though researchers don't know why: preeclampsia, preterm birth, low birth weight, and small for gestational age are all risk factors.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preterm birth affects nearly 500,000 babies each year, or one of every eight born in the U.S..

Infants born very preterm often require lifesaving treatments and longer hospitalizations at birth and are at increased risk for additional hospitalizations in the first year of life — and that is in the developed world.

The researchers estimated that more than 106,000 high - risk early preterm births could be avoided in the U.S. and about 1,100 could be prevented in Australia each year if pregnant women took daily supplements of the omega fatty acid.

Asthma admissions and preterm birth rates both fell by 10 per cent within a year after smoking restrictions were implemented, on average (The Lancet, doi.org/r49).

Approximately 11.5 percent of pregnancies result in preterm births in the United States, and oral feeding issues affect more than 500,000 newborns each year.

«Preterm birth complications, pneumonia are leading causes of death in children under five years.»

The 2012 preterm birth rate among non-Hispanic black infants remains the highest of all the racial groups at 16.5 percent, down from 18.5 percent in 2006 and the lowest in more than 20 years.

Preterm birth and stillbirth are leading causes of childhood death accounting for an estimated 2 million deaths per year; however there are few safe and effective interventions.

«US preterm birth rate drops to 15 - year low.»

Preterm birth, a delivery before 37 weeks of gestation, is one of the most serious obstetric complications affecting around 15 million pregnancies worldwide with more than one million newborn deaths each year due to complications of prematurity.

The last two decades has seen a steady improvement in the health outcomes of children born after assisted reproduction (ART), with fewer babies being born preterm, with low birth weight, stillborn or dying within the first year of life.

Since last year, over $ 250 million in funding has been announced to investigate the causes of preterm birth.

UIC researchers, led by Barbara McFarlin, professor of nursing, have received a five - year $ 2.84 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to develop techniques to accurately predict preterm birth.

On the flip side, having pregnancies five years or more apart is also linked to preterm birth and low birthweight, as well as preeclampsia (a condition where the mom - to - be develops high blood pressure and excess protein in her urine after 20 weeks of pregnancy).

Despite being a retrospective (think — women had to recall what they ate the previous year) cross-sectional study, researchers were able to observe distinct dietary patterns with statistically significant associations to preterm birth — women who ate processed food were 50 % more likely to deliver prematurely (< 37 weeks).

Effective intervention, such as home based and early education programmes, during the child's first three years can buffer them from the effects of preterm and low birth weight (Msall and Parts, 2008, The Spectrum of Behavioural Outcomes After Prematurity).

HR for hospitalisation risk associated with birth year, preterm birth and case group status from stratified model.

Over the last 20 years, Jan and her team have researched extensively in the area of motor development and disability, specialising in infant motor development and the impact of preterm birth on motor ability.

Parent - infant dyads (including foster or adoptive carers), where the infant is aged between birth and four years 11 months, and where problems have been identified regarding the parent (e.g. bonding, depression, eating disorders, maltreatment) or the child (e.g. attachment or behaviour problems, challenging temperament, preterm birth).

The present meta - analysis aims to integrate the findings of previous studies on stress in parents of preterm - born children from birth up to twelve years of age.

There is a strong effect for infant birth year, with decreasing parental stress from the 1980s onward, probably due to increased quality of care for preterm infants.