Davies and Gupta mention 34% as first born [ 11].
The main exposures used in the analyses were birth order (dummy-variable coded as first born, 0; second born, 1; third born, 2; and fourth born or more, 3), number of younger siblings and total siblings (each dummy-variable coded for 0, 1, 2, and more than 3 siblings).
Among both affluent and deprived groups, it was women who were optimists and believed that they would reach a ripe old age, who were more likely to have had a son as their first born.
My obligation, especially acute as a first born, is to acknowledge the shadow side of the seder and, similarly, that of the Jewish state.
As their first born, his official title is the Prince of Wales, and he is next in line to the throne.
Self-taught, he has done nothing else for a living than be an artist, which is no small feat considering that, as the first born in his family, he helps to provide for five younger brothers.
As her first born child, Jacinta is doing all that she can to ensure her baby remains healthy, especially through routine immunization.
Additionally, compared with the relevant reference categories, infants residing in a household without piped water (a proxy indicator of lower socio-economic status) had a significantly higher probability of being SGA, as were first born, those born at home, and those whose mother's height at birth was below the study population mean.
While Britain has bowed to the times by embracing as sovereign the first born of either sex, the rest of Europe's royalty is busy playing the game of "pass the crown".
However, a statistically significantly decreased risk for unspecified CNS tumours was observed among second-born children as opposed to first born (OR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.51 0.95) (Table 2), but no protective effect of a higher birth order was found.
We also found that RMS cases were more likely to be first born, as increasing birth order was associated with progressively decreasing RMS risk owing to the embryonal subtype; no association was observed for alveolar RMS.
