Sentence examples for birthweight in this study from inspiring English sources
Pregnancy-induced hypertension was also found to be positively associated to low birthweight in this study.
The mean birthweight in this study was 3.05 kg and 3.04 kg in men and women respectively.
It is plausible that smoking was not associated with birthweight in this study, and another study from the same area [ 15], because of infrequent consumption or type of tobacco used.
The incidence of low birthweight reported in this study is less than one-half of the overall figure for Pakistan.
These low uptakes and prevailing use of herbal remedies may have contributed to the high preterm and low birthweight deliveries demonstrated in this study.
In such cases, the population-based birthweight percentile charts presented in this study provide a valuable reference for clinicians and researchers assessing the prognosis of twins in Australia.
The response rate to take part in the study was 20% out of all the women who were invited, and the percentage of low birthweight babies (<2500 g) in this study (4.4%) was less than the National (7.2%) and the Yorkshire & Humber region average (7.8%) for 2007 (Office for National Statistics, 2007).
The median birthweight curves of the subjects in this study, which are similar to those of McKewn et al [ 15], suggest that growth limitation within the uterus becomes more marked with increasing numbers of fetuses.
18 The proportion of low birthweight babies in both cohorts in this study (1.8% in the freestanding group and 5.6% in the tertiary group) was relatively low compared with the incidence of low birthweight babies in Australian maternity units with between 100 and 500 births per year (4.04%) and in maternity units with greater than 2000 births per year (9.77%).
The inverse associations between higher birthweight and breast cancer seen in this study could also partly be explained by selection bias in the full CBCS dataset if either the case group under-represented the proportion of high birthweight women in the underlying case population or the control group under-represented the proportion of normal weight births in the underlying population.
