The first stage was performed in the clinics, and included the collection of medical data about delivery and newborn function, as well as the collection of data from questionnaire surveys for mothers during their stay.
This index was then associated with the following factors: delivery mode, newborn function after birth, maternal emotional well-being, risk behavior, subjective evaluation of the quality of the relationship of the couple, and attitudes toward infant-rearing.
Environmental agents tend to have nonspecific, possibly subtle, effects that invade many areas of newborn functioning.
Apgar scores 1 and 5 minutes after birth were used to evaluate newborn functioning.
We observed no associations between infant difficulties with delivery mode, medication administered during labor and newborn functioning.
The parameters studied age of newborn, renal function at admission, RIFLE criterion, causes of acute renal failure, management, the biological monitoring of renal function, prognosis.
Visual impairments in paediatric age constitute a major world health problem, so there is an increased interest in evaluating newborn visual function developing tailored instruments.
Using the sheep model, we have previously shown that injection of endotoxin into the amniotic cavity results in inflammatory responses and profoundly enhances newborn lung function after preterm birth.
Our study has produced initial reference data for newborn circulatory function.
Recent epidemiologic studies examined associations between potential exposure to ClO4− from drinking water and newborn thyroid function or PCH prevalence (Brechner et al. 2000; Crump et al. 2000; Kelsh et al. 2003; Lamm and Doemland 1999; Li et al. 2000a, 2000b).
