Article: In Tanzania, use of multivitamins reduces risk of low birth weight and maternal anemia.(DIGESTS)(Author abstract)

Article: Studies in the area of life sciences reported from University of Bergen.
Health & Medicine Week;  August 18, 2008 ;     418 words ......identify children of different gestational-age categories who were born between...23 to 27 weeks of gestation (relative risk for birth at 23 to 27 weeks...retardation, 0.4% versus 4.4% (relative risk, 10.3; 95% CI, 6.2 to 17.2...pension, 1.7% versus 10.6% (relative ...

Article: relative risk
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      61 words ...relative risk The ratio of the risks of the same outcome...different outcome for the same group. So the relative risk of a car accident when the driver has...5. Similarly, you could compute the relative risk of travelling by plane compared to travelling...

Article: Ranking risk. (evaluating relative risk) (Column)
Chemical Week;  July 28, 1993 ;     519 words ...Relative risk is getting a lot of discussion. At last month's Chemical Manufacturers...p. Robert Luft on a strategy to develop public policy based on relative risk. Relative risk has been high on the list of speech-making topics for industry...

Article: The swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barre syndrome: a case study in relative risk and specific causation.
Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......discusses the role of epidemiologic evidence in toxic tort cases, focusing on relative risk. If a relative risk is above 2.0, can we infer specific causation? Relative risk compares groups in an epidemiologic study. One group is exposed to some...

Article: Centile charts for birthweight for gestational age for Scottish singleton births.(Research article)
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth;  February 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ......definitions however do not take into account gestational age. It is important to be able to differentiate...premature and those who are small-for-gestational age since the latter may have different...pulmonary haemorrhage [1]. Large-for-gestational age babies also have related health ...

Article: Pupillary Membrane (a good criteria to assess gestational age of the new born).(Original Article)
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology;  January 1, 1985 ;     700+ words ......was done within 24 hours of birth. Gestational age was assessed by different criteria...the help of Detecto Scale Balance. Gestational age in weeks was determined with the help...intrauterine weight charts[1] Assessment of gestational age by physical criteria was done[2...

Article: Circulating Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone mRNA in Maternal Plasma: Relationship with Gestational Age and Severity of Preeclampsia
Clinical Chemistry;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......compared with controls matched for gestational age (1-5). Fetal and total DNA concentrations...to be directly correlated to both gestational age and to the severity of PE (6). Again...demonstration of relationships with gestational age and/or severity of PE have been reported...

Article: The effect of gestational age on trial of labor after Cesarean section
Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Objectives: To evaluate the effect of gestational age on the rate of successful vaginal...divided into three groups according to gestational age: 24-36 weeks 6 days, 37-40 weeks 6...respectively. In patients with advanced gestational age (> or = 41 weeks) the rate of uterine...

Article: small for gestational age (SGA) infant
The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      170 words ......Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 small for gestational age (SGA) infant, a baby whose weight and size at birth...small for dates (SFD) infant. Compare large for gestational age infant. See also dysmaturity. The ideas, procedures...

Article: large for gestational age (LGA) infant
The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      142 words ......Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 large for gestational age (LGA) infant, an infant whose size and weight...percentile (upper 10%) of appropriate for gestational age infants, whether delivered prematurely, at...

Article: What are relative risk, number needed to treat and odds ratio?.(Review Article)
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......difference, number needed to treat (NNT), relative risk or odds ratio. Risk difference (RD...NNT are absolute measures of effect. Relative risk (RR) is a relative measure and is the...group to that in the unexposed group. Relative risk reduction (RRR) is one minus RR and...

Article: New Study of Preterm Delivery of Triplets Finds Gestational Age at Birth Dramatically Impacts Infant Health and Hospital Costs.
PR Newswire;  May 24, 2000 ;     617 words ......Prolong Multiple Pregnancies to Optimum Gestational Age SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 /PRNewswire...significantly improved with increased gestational age at delivery. In particular, the researchers...report that preterm infants (born at a gestational age of 30 to 36 weeks): * Had greater...

Article: The effect of maternal anthropometric characteristics and social factors on gestational age and birth weight in Sudanese newborn infants.(Research article)(Clinical report)
BMC Public Health;  July 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ......2, 3]. Beside biological factors like gestational age (GA), maternal weight and height [4], life...education and socio-economic status on gestational age and birth weight in a sample of mothers...Tokyo, Japan) to the nearest 10 grams, The gestational age was calculated from the last ...

Article: Discordant twins with the smaller baby appropriate for gestational age--unusual manifestation of superfoetation: a case report.(Case report)
BMC Pediatrics;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......foetus has invariably been small for gestational age (estimated from the date of the...appropriate size and development for the gestational age. The second twin was of 36 weeks gestation. Gestational age was estimated with the New Ballard...