Birth Weight

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Non-Inferiority, Individually Randomized Trial of Intermittent Screening and Treatment versus Intermittent Preventive Treatment in the Control of Malaria in Pregnancy. 
  • A cohort study of transcutaneous oxygen tension and the incidence and severity of retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • A cross-sectional study of in utero growth of the above average sized fetus. 
  • A gestational-age-independent model of birth weight based on placental size. 
  • A preliminary study of the application of the transductal velocity ratio for assessing persistent ductus arteriosus. 
  • A prospective study of the association between vigorous physical activity during pregnancy and length of gestation and birthweight. 
  • A spatial measure of neighborhood level racial isolation applied to low birthweight, preterm birth, and birthweight in North Carolina. 
  • Abortion legislation, maternal healthcare, fertility, female literacy, sanitation, violence against women and maternal deaths: a natural experiment in 32 Mexican states. 
  • Accuracy of ultrasonic weight prediction in the fetus with preterm premature rupture of membranes. 
  • Adjunctive erythromycin treatment for idiopathic preterm labor: results of a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Adrenomedullin signaling pathway polymorphisms and adverse pregnancy outcomes. 
  • Aggressive vs. conservative phototherapy for infants with extremely low birth weight. 
  • Anaemia in early infancy. 
  • Analysis of matched samples. 
  • Anemia of prematurity. 
  • Angiogenic, neurotrophic, and inflammatory system SNPs moderate the association between birth weight and ADHD symptom severity. 
  • Antibiotic therapy for the treatment of preterm labor: a review of the evidence. 
  • Assessing exposure metrics for PM and birth weight models. 
  • Assessment of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in healthy, full-term neonates. 
  • Association between birthweight and later body mass index: an individual-based pooled analysis of 27 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project. 
  • Association of cord blood methylation fractions at imprinted insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2), plasma IGF2, and birth weight. 
  • Association of maternal serum progesterone in early pregnancy with low birth weight and other adverse pregnancy outcomes. 
  • Associations between antibiotic exposure during pregnancy, birth weight and aberrant methylation at imprinted genes among offspring. 
  • Associations between birth size and later height from infancy through adulthood: An individual based pooled analysis of 28 twin cohorts participating in the CODATwins project. 
  • Associations between imprinted gene differentially methylated regions, appetitive traits and body mass index in children. 
  • Associations between maternal cytokine levels during gestation and measures of child cognitive abilities and executive functioning. 
  • Associations between prenatal physical activity, birth weight, and DNA methylation at genomically imprinted domains in a multiethnic newborn cohort. 
  • Associations between the quality of the residential built environment and pregnancy outcomes among women in North Carolina. 
  • Associations of birth outcomes with maternal polybrominated diphenyl ethers and thyroid hormones during pregnancy. 
  • Associations of maternal BMI and insulin resistance with the maternal metabolome and newborn outcomes. 
  • Associations of maternal retinal vasculature with subsequent fetal growth and birth size. 
  • Benign extracerebral fluid collection in infancy as a risk factor for the development of de novo intracranial arachnoid cysts. 
  • Birth Weight and Preterm Delivery Outcomes of Perinatally vs Nonperinatally Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Pregnant Women in the United States: Results From the PHACS SMARTT Study and IMPAACT P1025 Protocol. 
  • Birth measurements, family history, and environmental factors associated with later-life hypertensive status. 
  • Birth weight and breast cancer risk. 
  • Birth weight and prematurity in infants with single ventricle physiology: pediatric heart network infant single ventricle trial screened population. 
  • Birth weight is not related to risk of diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Birthweight Extremes and Neonatal and Childhood Outcomes after Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes. 
  • Birthweight predicts IQ: fact or artefact? 
  • Blood pressure is associated with retinal vessel signs in preadolescent children. 
  • Body composition changes in preterm infants following hospital discharge: comparison with term infants. 
  • Breech delivery: evaluation of the method of delivery on perinatal results and maternal morbidity. 
  • Cardiac surgery in infants with low birth weight is associated with increased mortality: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Database. 
  • Characteristics of patients who die of necrotizing enterocolitis. 
  • Characterization of banked umbilical cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cells and lymphocyte subsets and correlation with ethnicity, birth weight, sex, and type of delivery: a Cord Blood Transplantation (COBLT) Study report. 
  • Clinical chorioamnionitis is not predicted by an ultrasonic biophysical profile in patients with premature rupture of membranes. 
  • Clinical outcomes in very low birth weight infants with major congenital heart defects. 
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Cohort profile for the Nurture Observational Study examining associations of multiple caregivers on infant growth in the Southeastern USA. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of surfactant preparations in premature infants. 
  • Cost averted by providing comprehensive prenatal care to teenagers. 
  • Cost per anomaly: what does a diaphragmatic hernia cost? 
  • DNA methylation of imprinted genes at birth is associated with child weight status at birth, 1 year, and 3 years. 
  • Delayed spatial alternation deficits resulting from perinatal PCB exposure in monkeys. 
  • Depression in pregnancy, infant birth weight and DNA methylation of imprint regulatory elements. 
  • Depressive symptoms in the second trimester relate to low oxytocin levels in African-American women: a pilot study. 
  • Development of behaviors in preterm infants: relation to sleeping and waking. 
  • Differences in Birth Weight Associated with the 2008 Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Reduction: Results from a Natural Experiment. 
  • Differential risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among Hispanic women. 
  • Donor oocytes are associated with preterm birth when compared to fresh autologous in vitro fertilization cycles in singleton pregnancies. 
  • Dosing antibiotics in neonates: review of the pharmacokinetic data. 
  • Drinking water disinfection by-product exposure and fetal growth. 
  • Early inhaled nitric oxide therapy in premature newborns with respiratory failure. 
  • Early life growth, socioeconomic status, and mammographic breast density in an urban US birth cohort. 
  • Effect of birth parameters on retinal vascular caliber: the Twins Eye Study in Tasmania. 
  • Effect of gestational age and birth weight on the risk of strabismus among premature infants. 
  • Effects of antenatal magnesium sulfate and corticosteroid therapy on sleep states of preterm infants. 
  • Effects of intravascular, intrauterine transfusion on prenatal and postnatal hemolysis and erythropoiesis in severe fetal isoimmunization. 
  • Effects of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on infant anthropometric outcomes. 
  • Efficiency of production and cow size in beef cattle. 
  • Elimination of Perinatal Hepatitis B: Providing the First Vaccine Dose Within 24 Hours of Birth. 
  • Embryo culture media and neonatal birthweight following IVF. 
  • Epigenetic regulation of Newborns' imprinted genes related to gestational growth: patterning by parental race/ethnicity and maternal socioeconomic status. 
  • Erythrocyte folate concentrations, CpG methylation at genomically imprinted domains, and birth weight in a multiethnic newborn cohort. 
  • Estimated fetal weight: applicability to small- and large-for-gestational-age fetus. 
  • Estimating fetal weight in patients with preterm premature rupture of the membranes. 
  • Evaluation of an indirect ophthalmoscopy digital photographic system as a retinopathy of prematurity screening tool. 
  • Evaluation of the accuracy of grading indirect ophthalmoscopy video images for retinopathy of prematurity screening. 
  • Evaluation of the developmental neuroendocrine and reproductive toxicology of aluminium. 
  • Evidence of a relationship between infant birth weight and later diabetes and impaired glucose regulation in a Chinese population. 
  • FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES OF YOUNG INFANTS WITH AND WITHOUT MACULAR EDEMA. 
  • Facial features of infants exposed prenatally to cocaine. 
  • Fathers' support to mothers of medically fragile infants. 
  • Fetal anthropometry at term: effect of menstrual age and relative fetal size. 
  • Fetal dexamethasone exposure accelerates development of renal function: relationship to dose, cell differentiation and growth inhibition. 
  • Fetal overgrowth. Diabetic versus nondiabetic. 
  • Fetal weight estimates in diabetic gravid women. 
  • First-trimester bleeding and twin pregnancy outcomes after in vitro fertilization. 
  • First-trimester sex hormone binding globulin and subsequent gestational diabetes mellitus. 
  • Fluid therapy for the pediatric surgical patient. 
  • Forced Marriage and Birth Outcomes. 
  • Foveal avascular zone and foveal pit formation after preterm birth. 
  • Frequency of anomalies and hospital outcomes in infants with gastroschisis and omphalocele. 
  • Gender-specific methylation differences in relation to prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke. 
  • Genetic and environmental factors affecting birth size variation: a pooled individual-based analysis of secular trends and global geographical differences using 26 twin cohorts. 
  • Head ultrasound screening in premature neonates weighing more than 1,500 g at birth. 
  • Heart rate responses of human newborns to modulated pure tones. 
  • Hierarchical spatial modeling of uncertainty in air pollution and birth weight study. 
  • Higher maternal dietary protein intake in late pregnancy is associated with a lower infant ponderal index at birth. 
  • Impact of fetal nicotine exposure on development of rat brain regions: critical sensitive periods or effects of withdrawal? 
  • In utero exposure to maternal smoking and women's risk of fetal loss in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort (MoBa). 
  • Incidence of retinopathy of prematurity in the United States: 1997 through 2005. 
  • Incidence of severe retinopathy of prematurity before and after a modest reduction in target oxygen saturation levels. 
  • Increased mtDNA levels without change in mitochondrial enzymes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of infants born to HIV-infected mothers on antiretroviral therapy. 
  • Increased numbers of total nucleated and CD34+ cells in blood group O cord blood: an analysis of neonatal innate factors in the Korean population. 
  • Induction of parturition in swine and rabbits with the corticosteroid dexamethasone. 
  • Inflammation and glucose intolerance: a prospective study of gestational diabetes mellitus. 
  • Influence of intraocular pressure on retinal vascular caliber measurements in children. 
  • Influence of transcutaneous oxygen monitoring on the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • Influence of weight at enterostomy reversal on surgical outcomes in infants after emergent neonatal stoma creation. 
  • Insulin resistance and alterations in angiogenesis: additive insults that may lead to preeclampsia. 
  • Is size discordancy an indication for delivery of preterm twins? 
  • Joint Bayesian analysis of birthweight and censored gestational age using finite mixture models. 
  • Lipopolysaccharide and soluble CD14 in cord blood plasma are associated with prematurity and chorioamnionitis. 
  • Low and High Birth Weights Are Risk Factors for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children. 
  • Low birth weight and retinal vascular caliber in young children. 
  • Macular features from spectral-domain optical coherence tomography as an adjunct to indirect ophthalmoscopy in retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • Management Practice and Mortality for Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. 
  • Maternal B vitamins: effects on offspring weight and DNA methylation at genomically imprinted domains. 
  • Maternal BMI and Glycemia Impact the Fetal Metabolome. 
  • Maternal age, birth order, and race: differential effects on birthweight. 
  • Maternal and child nutritional supplementation are inversely associated with fasting plasma glucose concentration in young Guatemalan adults. 
  • Maternal and childhood nutrition and later blood pressure levels in young Guatemalan adults. 
  • Maternal antecedents of adiposity and studying the transgenerational role of hyperglycemia and insulin (MAASTHI): a prospective cohort study : Protocol of birth cohort at Bangalore, India. 
  • Maternal blood cadmium, lead and arsenic levels, nutrient combinations, and offspring birthweight. 
  • Maternal cadmium, iron and zinc levels, DNA methylation and birth weight. 
  • Maternal cortisol disproportionately impacts fetal growth in male offspring: evidence from the Philippines. 
  • Maternal ethnic ancestry and adverse perinatal outcomes in New York City. 
  • Maternal metabolites during pregnancy are associated with newborn outcomes and hyperinsulinaemia across ancestries. 
  • Maternal periodontitis and prematurity. Part I: Obstetric outcome of prematurity and growth restriction. 
  • Maternal vitamin D receptor genetic variation contributes to infant birthweight among black mothers. 
  • Maternal vitamin D, DNA methylation at imprint regulatory regions and offspring weight at birth, 1 year and 3 years. 
  • Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in neonates reveals widespread differential DNA methylation associated with birthweight. 
  • Metabolic Networks and Metabolites Underlie Associations Between Maternal Glucose During Pregnancy and Newborn Size at Birth. 
  • Mice deficient for testis-brain RNA-binding protein exhibit a coordinate loss of TRAX, reduced fertility, altered gene expression in the brain, and behavioral changes. 
  • Minimal Impact by Antenatal Subpatent Plasmodium falciparum Infections on Delivery Outcomes in Malawian Women: A Cohort Study. 
  • Modeling adverse birth outcomes via confirmatory factor quantile regression. 
  • Multilevel quantile function modeling with application to birth outcomes. 
  • Necrotizing enterocolitis in infants with ductal-dependent congenital heart disease. 
  • Neonatologists' practices and experiences in arranging retinopathy of prematurity screening services. 
  • Newborn clinical outcomes of the AWHONN late preterm infant research-based practice project. 
  • Non-nutritive sucking for preterm infants in Egypt. 
  • Nursery neurobiologic risk score: levels of risk and relationships with nonmedical factors. 
  • Obesity and mode of delivery in primigravid and multigravid women. 
  • Obstetric complications in young teenagers. 
  • Outcome of infants delivered between 24 and 28 weeks' gestation in women with severe pre-eclampsia. 
  • Outcome of patients undergoing transabdominal cerclage: a descriptive study. 
  • Outcome of twin, triplet, and quadruplet in vitro fertilization pregnancies: the Norfolk experience. 
  • Outcomes of preterm infants treated with hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. 
  • Perinatal factors associated with clinical presentation of osteosarcoma in children and adolescents. 
  • Perinatal outcomes in women with systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Placental hormones and the control of fetal growth. 
  • Plasma acylcarnitine profiling indicates increased fatty acid oxidation relative to tricarboxylic acid cycle capacity in young, healthy low birth weight men. 
  • Population Pharmacokinetics of Fluconazole in Premature Infants with Birth Weights Less than 750 Grams. 
  • Population pharmacokinetics of metronidazole evaluated using scavenged samples from preterm infants. 
  • Prediction of birthweight from third-trimester ultrasound in morbidly obese women. 
  • Prediction of bronchopulmonary dysplasia by postnatal age in extremely premature infants. 
  • Predictive value of pre-plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • Predictors and adverse outcomes of inadequate or excessive gestational weight gain in an Asian population. 
  • Pregnancy complications and birth outcomes in obese and normal-weight women: effects of gestational weight change. 
  • Pregnancy outcomes among adolescent and older women receiving comprehensive prenatal care. 
  • Prenatal cocaine and/or nicotine exposure in rats: preliminary findings on long-term cognitive outcome and genital development at birth. 
  • Prenatal depression restricts fetal growth. 
  • Prenatal exposure to organophosphates and associations with birthweight and gestational length. 
  • Prenatal nicotine exposure and cognitive performance in rats. 
  • Preterm birth, fetal growth, and age at menarche among women exposed prenatally to diethylstilbestrol (DES). 
  • Prevalence and risk factors for visual impairment in preschool children the sydney paediatric eye disease study. 
  • Prophylactic indomethacin for prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants. 
  • Quantification of the burden and consequences of pregnancy-associated malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
  • Recognition of the overgrown fetus: in utero ponderal indices. 
  • Rehospitalization for respiratory illness in infants of less than 32 weeks' gestation. 
  • Relationship between birth size and coronary heart disease in China. 
  • Relationship of axial length and retinal vascular caliber in children. 
  • Relative importance of birth size and postnatal growth for women's educational achievement. 
  • Repeated fetal betamethasone treatment and birth weight and head circumference. 
  • Retinal vascular imaging in early life: insights into processes and risk of cardiovascular disease. 
  • Retinopathy of prematurity in the United States. 
  • Rifampin use and safety in hospitalized infants. 
  • Risk factors and midwife-reported reasons for episiotomy in women undergoing normal vaginal delivery. 
  • Risk factors for invasive candidiasis in infants >1500 g birth weight. 
  • Risk factors for mortality and morbidity after the neonatal Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure. 
  • Risk factors for necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants: how race, gender, and health status contribute. 
  • Routine use of antimicrobials by pregnant Indian women does not improve birth outcome: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Safety of Retinopathy of Prematurity Examination and Imaging in Premature Infants. 
  • Selective management of abruptio placentae: a prospective study. 
  • Smaller birth size is associated with narrower retinal arterioles in early adolescence. 
  • Smoking and marijuana use in pregnancy. 
  • Spectral-domain optical coherence tomographic assessment of severity of cystoid macular edema in retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • Stanford University Network for Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (SUNDROP): 24-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • Stanford University network for diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity (SUNDROP): 36-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • Subfoveal fluid in healthy full-term newborns observed by handheld spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Temperature profile and outcomes of neonates undergoing whole body hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. 
  • The Philadelphia Episiotomy Intervention Study. 
  • The anemia of prematurity. Factors governing the erythropoietin response. 
  • The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. 
  • The dehydroepiandrosterone loading test. IV. Evaluation of clinical utility. 
  • The effect of cocaine abuse on birth weight and gestational age. 
  • The effect of prenatal exposure to the phytoestrogen genistein on sexual differentiation in rats. 
  • The effect of water disinfection by-products on pregnancy outcomes in two southeastern US communities. 
  • The effects of cigarette smoking and gestational weight change on birth outcomes in obese and normal-weight women. 
  • The impact of the Women, Infants and Children Food Supplement Program on birth outcome. 
  • The influence of birth size on intelligence in healthy children. 
  • The relationship between birthweight and early age-related maculopathy: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • The relationship of placental grade to fetal size and growth at term. 
  • The tendency to IUGR in preterm infants born to young women enrolled in a comprehensive prenatal program. 
  • Timing of motor milestones achievement and development of overweight in childhood: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort. 
  • Tracking biocultural pathways in population health: the value of biomarkers. 
  • Transcriptome changes affecting Hedgehog and cytokine signalling in the umbilical cord: implications for disease risk. 
  • Transcutaneous oxygen monitoring and retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • Transdermal nicotine replacement in pregnancy: maternal pharmacokinetics and fetal effects. 
  • Treatment outcome in fellow eyes after laser photocoagulation for retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • Ultrasonic recognition of the small-for-gestational-age fetus. 
  • Ultrasonographic identification of the macrosomic fetus. 
  • Ultrasound detection of brain damage in preterm infants. 
  • Use of a Midliner Positioning System for Prevention of Dolichocephaly in Preterm Infants. 
  • Weight-for-length trajectories in the first year of life in children of mothers with eating disorders in a large Norwegian Cohort. 
  • Women's health and pregnancy outcomes: do services make a difference? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
  • Farsiu, Sina, Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Freemark, Michael Scott, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. and Veronica Atkins Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Toth, Cynthia Ann, Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery