The phrase "a high birthweight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to health, medicine, or discussions about newborns and their weight at birth.
Example: "Babies with a high birthweight may face certain health risks, including complications during delivery."
Alternatives: "elevated birthweight" or "increased birthweight".
The long term clinical impact of a high birthweight is unknown.
A stillbirth was much more common among babies with low birth weight than normal-sized babies, and babies with a high birthweight had almost six times higher risk of stillbirth.
This association appears at first to be contradictory because a high birthweight is associated with a higher childhood weight (Danielzik et al, 2004), which was a risk factor for early menarche in our study and many others (Moisan et al, 1990; Cooper et al, 1996; Koprowski et al, 1999; Freedman et al, 2002).
The children in the study sample also had a higher birthweight and a longer gestation period.
Pregnancies complicated by one or more abnormal glucose values yielded an infant with a higher birthweight (Tables 2, 3).
If there is either a general or breast cancer specific survival advantage to having a higher birthweight, then one would expect to see an inverse association between birthweight and breast cancer among older women.
In the context of a relatively disadvantaged population such as this one, a higher birthweight may be a surrogate for a different constellation of prenatal and postnatal influences than in a relatively advantaged population.
Australian-born women were more likely to be diagnosed with pregnancy-related hypertension, have a caesarean section, have an epidural and a higher birthweight baby than women born in countries other than Australia.
Clinical features in patients with diabetes and negative for KCNJ11, INS and ABCC8 Patients from group 1, negative in the genetic screening for genes commonly causing PNDM/MDI (hereafter called PNDM/MDI 'X') had a higher birthweight (median 3,164 g) than patients with KCNJ11 mutations (median 2,460 g; p < 0.0003), and similar to individuals carrying INS mutations (Table 2).
Excessive GWG increased the risk of delivery by cesarean section, postpartum weight retention at 6, 12 and 24 months and having a high-birthweight baby.
According to the World Health Organization [ 20], a low birthweight infant is one born with birthweight < 2500 g; an infant with high birthweight or macrosomia is one weighting ≥ 4000 g.
