How, what, and why: housing, water & sanitation and wealth patterns in a cross-sectional study of the Guarani Birth Cohort, the first Indigenous birth cohort in BrazilResearch... by Aline Diniz Rodrigues Caldas, Aline Araújo Nobre, Elizabeth Brickley, Neal Alexander, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Yasmin Nascimento Farias, Carla Tatiana Garcia Barreto Ferrão, Felipe Guimarães Tavares, Lídia de Nazaré Pantoja, Márcia Cristina da Luz Duarte, Andrey Moreira Cardoso

“…Methods: Cross-sectional study using baseline data from The Guarani Birth Cohort. We used Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Cluster Analysis. …”
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How safe is it to plan a vaginal breech birth with OptiBreech collaborative care?: analysis of cumulative data within the OptiBreech Multiple Trials Cohort [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Sabrina Das, Shawn Walker, Amy Meadowcroft, Kate Stringer, Jacana Bresson, Siân Davies, Jasmine Kang, Alice Hodder, Emma Spillane

“…Background OptiBreech collaborative care is a multi-disciplinary care pathway for breech presentation at term. The OptiBreech Multiple Trial Cohort is designed to host multiple trials related to care for breech presentation. …”
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Role Of Low Dose Aspirin In Preventing Preterm Birth In Patients With Previous History Of Preterm Delivery by Maliha Sadaf, Aasia Saleem, Tallat Farkhanda, Khansa Iqbal, Sabeen Ashraf, Amna Iftikhar

“… Objective: Preterm birth (PTB) occurs between 24-37 weeks of gestation. …”
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Can Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index and Maternal Exercise Affect Birth and Neonatal Outcomes—A Cross Sectional Study by Anna Weronika Szablewska, Jolanta Wierzba, Rita Santos-Rocha, Anna Szumilewicz

“…To analyze factors related to birth outcomes, we used the Pearson’s Chi-squared test of independence and odds ratio (OR), with a corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI), followed by a multiple logistic regression. …”
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Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy. Impact of multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapy on the health of newborns by T. I. Yakushina

“…Immunosuppressive therapy increases the risk of various disorders in infants (such as multiple malformations, low birth weight, prematurity). …”
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Surrounding greenness is associated with lower risk and burden of low birth weight in Iran by Siqi Luo, Yaqi Wang, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Helder Relvas, Mohammad Baaghideh, Kai Wang, Yang Yuan, Zhouxin Yin, Yunquan Zhang

“…Association analyses provide consistent evidence for approximately L-shaped exposure-response functions, linking 7.0–11.5% declines in the odds of LBW to each 0.1-unit rise in NDVI/EVI with multiple buffers. Assuming causality, 3931–5099 LBW births can be avoided by achieving greenness targets of mean NDVI/EVI, amounting to 4.4–5.6% of total LBW births in 2015. …”
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Physical development of preterm monochorionic diamniotic twins at birth: retrospective cohort study by M. V. Pavlichenko, N. V. Kosovtsova, Ya. Yu. Pospelova, T. V. Markova

“…In the newborn having a lower birth weight, specific complications associated with monochorionic multiple pregnancy result in body weight and length deficit, disharmonious development due to the lack of nourishment (22.6% in the TTTS group and 73.0% in the sIUGR group), as well as delayed head circumference growth in 56.8% of newborns with sIUGR.…”
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Factors associated with small-for-gestational-age births among preterm babies born by Grace J Chan, Amha Mekasha, Ahmed Ali, Mesfin K Debere, Damen Haile Mariam

“…Objectives This study aimed to determine the prevalence of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA); compare variations in multiple risk factors, and identify factors associated with SGA births among preterm babies born <2000 g.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting The study was conducted at five public hospitals in Oromia Regional State and Addis Ababa City Administration, Ethiopia.Participants 531 singleton preterm babies born <2000 g from March 2017 to February 2019.Outcome measures Birth size-for-gestational-age was an outcome variable. …”
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Correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment weakens over birth cohorts by Arno Van Hootegem, Ole Røgeberg, Bernt Bratsberg, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad

“…As a result, this study examines the correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment across male birth cohorts in Norway. Utilizing administrative register data covering more than four decades, we investigate multiple measures of educational attainment and their connection to cognitive abilities. …”
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Changes in Income at Macro Level Predict Sex Ratio at Birth in OECD Countries. by Ohto Kanninen, Aleksi Karhula

“…The human sex ratio at birth (SRB) is approximately 107 boys for every 100 girls. …”
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Child Wantedness and Low Weight at Birth: Differential Parental Investment among Roma by Jelena Čvorović

“…The child variables were gender, birth order, birthweight (low birthweight at <2500 g and normal birthweight at >2500 g) and whether the child was wanted, while maternal independent variables included age, literacy and household wealth. …”
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Actions of Bisphenol A on Different Feto-Maternal Compartments Contributing to Preterm Birth by Manuel S. Vidal, Ramkumar Menon, Gracia Fe B. Yu, Melissa D. Amosco

“…Since there are multiple etiological factors associated with this disease process, an integrative literature search in PubMed and Scopus databases on possible mechanism of action and effect of bisphenols on exposure on human or animal placental samples in preterm birth was conducted. …”
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Effects of Umbilical Cord Clamping Time After Birth on Risk of Postpartum Depression by Asiye Uzun

“…Those with previous depression history, chronic disease, multiple pregnancy, puerperant women with impaired hemodynamics after birth, and neonates with poor Apgar score after birth or who required resuscitation were not included. …”
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Childhood adversity and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood in the 1958 British birth cohort by Natalie Ella Miller, Rebecca E. Lacey

“…Multiply-imputed data on 8511 participants from the National Child Development Study (1958 British birth cohort) were used. ACEs were prospectively reported at ages 7, 11 and 16, and retrospectively reported at age 33/44/45. …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting the probability of live birth in infertile women by Meng Zhang, Hai-Qing Tian, Tao Bu, Xia Li, Xiao-Hui Wan, Duo-Lao Wang, Hua Xu, Xin-Min Mao, Qing-Li Wang, Xiao-Lin La

“…Results: There were no statistically significant differences in the patients' baseline and cycle characteristics between the training and validation cohorts. On multiple logistic regression analysis, female age, antral follicle count, tubal factor, anovulation, ethnicity, unexplained fertility, and male factor were significantly associated with live birth. …”
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Calf health from birth to weaning. III. housing and management of calf pneumonia by Lorenz Ingrid, Earley Bernadette, Gilmore John, Hogan Ian, Kennedy Emer, More Simon J

“…A three part review series has been developed focusing on calf health from birth to weaning. In this paper, the last of the three part series, we review disease prevention and management with particular reference to pneumonia, focusing primarily on the pre-weaned calf. …”
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The worldwide incidence of preterm birth: a systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity by Stacy Beck, Daniel Wojdyla, Lale Say, Ana Pilar Betran, Mario Merialdi, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Craig Rubens, Ramkumar Menon, Paul FA Van Look

“…Those data were supplemented through a complementary search covering the period 2003-2007. Region-specific multiple regression models were used to estimate the preterm birth rates for countries with no data. …”
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Utilizing the fecal microbiota to understand foal gut transitions from birth to weaning. by Ubaldo De La Torre, John D Henderson, Kathleen L Furtado, Madeleine Pedroja, O'Malley Elenamarie, Anthony Mora, Monica Y Pechanec, Elizabeth A Maga, Michael J Mienaltowski

“…Fecal samples from 37 sets of foals and mares were collected at multiple time points ranging from birth to weaning. …”
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Factors associated with low birth weight infants of teenage pregnancy in Terengganu, 2018 by Samsury, Siti Fatimah

“…Simple logistic and multiple logistic regression analysis was used to analyse the factors associated with low birth weight infants of teenage pregnancy. …”
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Very Low Birth Weight Outcomes and Admission Temperature: Does Hyperthermia Matter? by Hannah Brophy, Gaik Min Tan, Charles William Yoxall

“…National and international recommendations for thermal care at preterm birth include recommendations to avoid hypothermia and hyperthermia. …”
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