Sentence examples for birthweight from inspiring English sources

Low birthweight is an indication of a malnourished mother.

The effect did not depend on the social classes or IQs of the parents, nor on the birthweight of the child in question (low birthweight has been linked to lower IQ).

In low- and middle-income countries, for example, more than one-quarter of live births involve newborns who are small for gestational age (SGA), because their birthweight or length was at or below the 10th percentile.

Mr. Ratha discovered two more aspects: By cutting out institutions and (often corrupt) governments, remittances more nimbly addressed needs like raising birthweight or lowering number of school drop-outs.

Similarly, a review of 46 scientific papers that looked at the effects of low to moderate drinking (up to 10.4 units per week) found no increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, low birthweight or birth defects, including foetal alcohol spectrum disorders – an umbrella term for several birth defects caused by exposure to alcohol in the womb.

In October 2013, ESCAPE reported on air pollution and low birthweight babies.

Women who had any fertility treatment were more likely to have a stillbirth, to have a low-birthweight baby, and to deliver before 32 weeks of gestation.

Despite only 28 weeks gestation which would normally carry a 75% survival rate, his extreme prematurity coupled with an extreme low-birthweight, meant that his survival rate was more like 50-60%, similar to a premature baby born at 24 weeks gestation.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were among the states with the lowest percentage of births to teenage mothers, but in most other categories, such as the number of low-birthweight babies and the prevalence of births to mothers who received late or no prenatal care, New York and New Jersey were slightly worse than the national average.

Previous research has found that low-birthweight children have an increased risk of academic difficulties in early childhood, but the gap was not as dramatic as the gaps found in the new study.

The growing number of low-birthweight babies is intensely troubling to health policy makers, who have devoted enormous resources in the last three decades to new programs intended to offer easy access to prenatal care, in hopes of solving the low-birthweight problem.