Birth Weight - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Are all brachial plexus injuries caused by shoulder dystocia?

30 Aug 2009 Obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP), is an injury of the brachial plexus at childbirth affecting the nerve roots of C5-6 (Erb-Duchenne palsy-nearly 80% of cases) or less frequently the C8-T1 nerve roots (Klumpke palsy). OBPP often has medicolegal ... Read more...

Evolutionary adaptation to high altitude: a view from in utero.

30 Aug 2009 A primary focus within biological anthropology has been to elucidate the processes of evolutionary adaptation. Frisancho helped to move anthropology towards more mechanistic explanations of human adaptation by drawing attention to the importance of ... Read more...

Is sonographic assessment of fetal weight influenced by formula selection?

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: Several published formulas exist for the determination of estimated fetal weight (EFW), with limited data on their comparative accuracies. The aims of our study were to assess and compare the performance of different EFW formulas in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Birth Weight - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Are all brachial plexus injuries caused by shoulder dystocia? 30 Aug 2009
• Evolutionary adaptation to high altitude: a view from in utero. 30 Aug 2009
• Is sonographic assessment of fetal weight influenced by formula selection? 30 Jul 2009
• Massively obese adolescents were of normal weight at the age of adiposity rebound. 29 Jun 2009
• Prenatal growth and early postnatal influences on adult motor cortical excitability. 29 Jun 2009
• Neonatal catch up growth increases diabetes susceptibility but improves behavioral and cardiovascular outcomes of low birth weight male mice. 29 Jun 2009
• A customized standard to assess fetal growth in a US population. 29 Jun 2009
• An obesogenic postnatal environment is more important than the fetal environment for the development of adult adiposity: a study of female twins. 22 Jun 2009
• An investigation of the risk factors for infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among patients in a neonatal intensive care unit. 15 Jun 2009
• Effects of prenatal multimicronutrient supplementation on pregnancy outcomes: a meta-analysis. 7 Jun 2009
• Prenatal micronutrient supplementation: are we there yet? 7 Jun 2009
• Seasonality in maternal intake and activity influence offspring's birth size among rural Indian mothers--Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. 2 Jun 2009
• Effect of different degrees of glucose intolerance on maternal and perinatal outcomes. 30 May 2009
• Maternal and child obesity: the causal link. 30 May 2009
• Calf birth weight and its association with calf and cow survivability, disease incidence, reproductive performance, and milk production. 30 May 2009
• Developmental origins of adult disease. 30 May 2009
• PaCO2 and neurodevelopment in extremely low birth weight infants. 15 May 2009
• Birth weight, postnatal growth, and age at menarche. 11 May 2009
• Age-dependent nongenetic influences of birth weight and adult body fat on insulin sensitivity in twins. 3 May 2009
• [What is the normal fetal weight?] 30 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Birth Weight'

Definition: The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual at BIRTH. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms.

Descriptor UI: D001724

Alternative terms: Birth Weight; Birth Weights; Weight, Birth; Weights, Birth;

Related Mesh Headings: Infant, Low Birth Weight; Infant, Very Low Birth Weight;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: C23.888.144.186; E01.370.600.115.100.160.120.186; E05.978.077.160.750.149; G07.100.100.160.120.186; G07.700.320.249.314.120.186;

Technical Notes: IM