Sentence examples for this birthweight from inspiring English sources

This was not the case in the present study, which almost certainly reflects the ventilation policy in the unit at the time, where babies with a birth weight below 900 grams were not offered ventilation, so survival in this birthweight category is low [ 47].

It is therefore reasonable to use statistical methods to derive a series of smoothed curves showing how the centiles of a measurement, in this case birthweight, change when plotted against time, in this case gestational age.

15 As flagged values, indicating low scores, were common in this low birthweight population we corroborated these against paper records and infant growth trajectories.

This includes information on the birthweight, gestational age and sex of the infant.

This increase in birthweight is also reflected in the other centiles.

Other systematic reviews performed in this field using birthweight as a continuous variable have shown mixed results.

40 This method develops birthweight centiles accounting for maternal height, weight, ethnicity, parity and the infant's sex and gestation at delivery.

In this study, infant birthweight was measured in the delivery room by a trained nurse and was accurate to 1 g.

Although late gestation is the period that most profoundly influences birthweight, this phase and maternal transfer may not be the most important factors for GC programming of beta cell mass.

The neonatal measurements in this analysis were: birthweight; head, abdominal, upper arm, lower arm, thigh and lower leg circumferences; face, biparietal, shoulder and hip breadths; neck-rump, upper arm, forearm, thigh, and lower leg lengths; and subscapular, triceps, abdominal and anterior thigh skinfolds.

It has been hypothesised, and there is evidence supporting this, that higher birthweight, maternal age and twinning probably increase breast cancer risk as they are associated with higher in utero oestrogen levels, whereas exposure to pre-eclampsia or eclampsia probably reduces breast cancer risk as they are associated with lower in utero oestrogen levels (Colditz et al, 2006).