Birth Outcomes
Oseltamivir in pregnancy and birth outcomes
... the birth outcomes: maternal age at conception, calendar year of conception, smoking as reported at the first prenatal visit (for live and still- births); pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) for live and ...
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Changes in maternal hemoglobin during pregnancy and birth outcomes
... and birth outcomes with- out adjustment, and defined this as the crude ...and birth outcomes, we evaluated the association be- tween Hb changes from early to mid- or late pregnancy and ...
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Ambient air pollution and adverse birth outcomes: a natural experiment study
... preterm birth and low birth weight of new- borns, may have been mitigated during the games when public smoking regulations were likely implemented, decreasing the risk of adverse birth ...
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Unconditional Prenatal Income Supplement and Birth Outcomes
... positive outcomes: increased breastfeeding initiation; reductions in low birth weight, preterm births, and small for gestational age births; and shorter birth hospital stays for infants born ...
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The Effect of the Family Case Management Program on 1996 Birth Outcomes in Illinois
... study, birth outcomes for women participating in both the Medicaid and the Family Case Management programs (42,683) were compared with the birth outcomes of women participating in the Medicaid ...
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Pregnancy Intention and Birth Outcomes: Does the Relationship Differ by Age or Race?
... sults did not differ when level of maternal edu- cation was included in alternative analysis lim- ited to women 22 years of age (data not shown). Despite the lack of an average overall effect among white women, the ...
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Maternal Health System Costs of Adverse Birth Outcomes
... It was evident from the preceding literature review that there was little relevant research in the area of maternal health system costs in relation to adverse birth outcomes, particularly research that ...
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Impact of autoimmune rheumatic diseases on birth outcomes: a population based study
... Our study has several major strengths, most notably a large racially and ethnically diverse cohort which allowed us to analyse less common ARDs. Given that it is a popu- lation-based study, it is more likely to include ...
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Pathways of neighbourhood-level socio-economic determinants of adverse birth outcomes
... Using the SAS PROC FACTOR procedure, a principal component analysis [31] was first conducted on identi- fied person-level risk variables. The optimal number of factors was determined based on two criteria, namely that ...
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Fear itself: The effects of distressing economic news on birth outcomes
... This research frequently faces two serious limitations involving causal mechanisms and gener- alisability. First, when the stressor is highly destructive, the observed changes in birth outcomes might also ...
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The Influence of Hatha Yoga on Birth Outcomes of First-time Mothers
... randomized trial was conducted among 74-primigravid women who were equally divided into two groups (experimental and control). The yoga program involved six, 1-h sessions at prescribed weeks of gestation was given to the ...
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Maternal urinary 2-hydroxynaphthalene and birth outcomes in Taiyuan, China
... other birth outcomes in subjects stratified by urinary levels of 9-OH PHE and 1-OH ...between birth outcomes and urine levels of PAH metab- olites are presented in Table ...
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Pathways of the determinants of unfavourable birth outcomes in Kenya
... Prenatal care and maternal nutritional status are likely to have a direct influence on undesirable birth outcomes, such as premature delivery, size of baby at birth and Caesarean section deliveries. ...
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Maternal Physical Activity and Birth Outcomes
... maternal birth outcomes using appropriate statistical ...labor outcomes were obtained by a combination of self-administered questionnaires and medical record ...point. Outcomes included ...
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Consanguinity: A risk factor for adverse birth outcomes
... Marriages between close blood relations have not been extensively researched as being a risk factor for undesired birth outcomes. From an operational point of view, union contracted between persons ...
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Birth location preferences of mothers and fathers in rural Ghana: Implications for pregnancy, labor and birth outcomes
... A few participants described personal health concerns that prompted their intentions to seek facility-based birth delivery. Notably, one mother explained, “Because I am not well, whatever happens, I will go to the ...
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Birth location preferences of mothers and fathers in rural Ghana: Implications for pregnancy, labor and birth outcomes
... A few participants described personal health concerns that prompted their intentions to seek facility-based birth delivery. Notably, one mother explained, “Because I am not well, whatever happens, I will go to the ...
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Adverse birth outcomes in a malarious area
... Factors associated with preterm birth were : adolescence (OR 1.9, 95 % CI 1.3–2.6) ; <5 antenatal visits (OR 2.3, 95 % CI 1.7–3.1) ; short stature (height <150 cm) (OR 1.6, 95 % CI 1.1–2.5) ; MUAC <23 cm ...
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Monitoring of IVF birth outcomes in Finland: a data quality study
... The second source was information on drugs prescribed by physicians in outpatient care, covering both the public and private sectors. The National Social Insurance Institu- tion reimburses all drug prescriptions for IVF, ...
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First Do No Harm?: Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes
... complications. They are also somewhat more likely to be born to minority mothers. The remaining columns of the rst panel of Table 2 indicate that C-section rates and the incidence of complications are slightly lower for ...
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