Further analyses showed that maternal age correlated with increased parity and was associated with increased infant weight and length.
Lower birthweights are associated with increased infant and child mortality and poor adult health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes.
Among infants experiencing high parent infant synchrony, OT elevated infant HPA reactivity and increased infant social gaze to the father while father maintained a still-face.
This condition has been linked with increased susceptibility to infectious diseases (such as feline infectious peritonitis, or FIP), increased infant mortality, and high levels of abnormal sperm.
"In international development, the people likely to suffer most are those with the least agency and power, the world's poorest on whom these callously made decisions have enormous impact" – including, he fears, on increased infant and women's mortality.
According to Christian Aid, the children of the affected areas have been hit in other ways: by malnutrition, increased infant mortality, and by being sent on three-hour journeys to collect water and firewood to survive.
One examination of the consequences of using DDT to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said the chemical might have increased infant deaths.
At high altitudes, however, the common variants of the gene boost hemoglobin and its carrier, red blood cells, too much, increasing the thickness of the blood and leading to hypertension and heart attacks as well as low birth weight babies and increased infant mortality.
Other possible health impacts can be hypertension, increased infant mortality and stomach cancer.
Chronic maternal hypertension resulted in decreased maternal morbidity but increased infant morbidity when primary cesarean delivery was used.
This thickens the blood, "leading to hypertension and heart attacks as well as low birth weight babies and increased infant mortality".
