Article: Low birth weight, social factors, and developmental outcomes among children in the United States

Article: Paternal occupational exposure to ...
Environmental Health Perspectives;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... term births were included in the birth weight analysis ([greater than or equal ... 37 weeks of gestation). Mean birth weight among full-term babies was similar ... concentration had an effect on birth weight for term infants after adjustment ...

Article: Teen smoking and birth outcomes.
Southern Economic Journal;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... years. The incidence of low birth weight for all teens is 23% higher ... 2007) concludes that low birth weight and other adverse birth outcomes observed in teen pregnancies ... inadequate prenatal care. Low birth weight is correlated with a number ...

Article: Demographic models of birth outcomes and infant ...
Demography;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... measures of birth outcomes, identifies ... combination of birth weight and gestational ... classifications of birth outcomes based on birth weight and gestational ... IUGR), low birth weight associated ... and normal birth outcomes. The first ...

Article: Research from Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology ...
Biotech Week;  October 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... behaviors, and birth outcomes,' new data in birth weight. "Stress ... and lower birth weight. The authors ... uniquely to birth outcomes compared with ... predicted lower birth weight. Clinically-defined birth outcomes were predicted ...

Article: Women in their 30s are the most likely to experience adverse ...
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... risk of poor birth outcomes may depend on ... being low-birth-weight or being preterm ... association between birth outcomes and incarceration ... pregnancy and birth outcomes, researchers ... incarceration and birth weight, low birth ...

Article: BIRTH OUTCOMES FOR ARABIC-NAMED WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA ...
Demography;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... birth and low birth weight, this study ... effect on birth outcomes for pregnant ... recently is poor birth outcomes, either low birth weight or preterm ... on their birth outcomes. Neither ... predicted low birth weight or preterm ...

Article: Pre-pregnancy Dietary Vitamin A Intake May Alleviate the Adverse ...
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... second trimester. Birth outcomes were adjusted for ... sub 2.5^ and birth weight (beta = -172 ... risk of adverse birth outcomes including lowered birth weight, premature births ... healthy mothers on birth outcomes such as weight ...