Prevalence and Outcome of Preterm Neonates Admitted to Neonatal Unit of a Tertiary Care Center in Western Nepal by Laxman Paudel, Balkrishna Kalakheti, Kiran Sharma

“…Overall survival rate was 75.26%. Conclusion: Preterm births were an important cause for admissions in neonatal unit. …”
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Risk of adverse obstetric outcomes in Japanese women with systemic lupus erythematosus: The Japan Environment and Children's Study. by Tsuyoshi Murata, Hyo Kyozuka, Toma Fukuda, Shun Yasuda, Akiko Yamaguchi, Akiko Sato, Yuka Ogata, Masahito Kuse, Mitsuaki Hosoya, Seiji Yasumura, Koichi Hashimoto, Hidekazu Nishigori, Keiya Fujimori, Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group

“…This study evaluated the incidence of preterm births (before 37 and 34 weeks), low birthweight infants (<2500 g and <1500 g), small-for-gestational age infants, preterm premature rupture of membranes, and gestational hypertension in mothers with lupus and compared them with those of the Japanese general population. …”
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Clinical and epidemiological aspects of prematurity in a Normal Delivery Center, São Paulo, Brazil by Miriam Siqueira do Carmo Rabello, Sonia Maria Oliveira de Barros

“…Results: The prevalence of preterm births was 7.8%, and 23.2% in adolescent mothers. …”
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Clinical and epidemiological aspects of prematurity in a Normal Delivery Center, São Paulo, Brazil by Miriam Siqueira do Carmo Rabello, Sonia Maria Oliveira de Barros

“…Results: The prevalence of preterm births was 7.8%, and 23.2% in adolescent mothers. …”
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Antenatal exposure to e-cigarette vapor as a possible etiology to total colonic necrotizing enterocolitits: A case report by Sarah Gillen, Daniel Saltzman

“…Antenatal exposure to cigarette smoke is associated with preterm births, low birth weights, and pediatric lung disease. …”
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Complementary Feeding in Preterm Infants: Where Do We Stand? by Maria Elisabetta Baldassarre, Maria Lorella Giannì, Antonio Di Mauro, Fabio Mosca, Nicola Laforgia

“…Currently, about 15 million preterm births occur annually worldwide; over 500,000 in Europe and 32,000 in Italy, accounting for 7–11% of total births, with the highest incidence in low-income states [...]…”
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Postnatal nutrition in preterm-born infants: could this developmental window be a target to reduce long-term changes in cardiac structure and function? by Lewandowski, A, Lamata, P, Francis, J, Neubauer, S, Singhal, A, Lucas, A, Leeson, C

“…Preterm birth relates to long-term alterations in cardiac structure and function. …”

Risk factors for spontaneous preterm labour with intact membrane: a case control study of Malay ethnic group in Hospital Serdang, Malaysia by Tan, Niu Jin, Karuppiah, Thilakavathy, Mohtarrudin, Norhafizah, Mohd Jamil, Amilia Afzan

“…Objective: Perinatal morbidity and mortality were well-associated with preterm births. Spontaneous preterm births as a single entity or preterm births in general were commonly used in identification of risk factors. …”
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Adverse Reproductive Outcomes Associated With Teenage Pregnancy by Siddhartha Yadav, Dilip Choudhary, Narayan KC, Rajesh Kumar Mandal, Achyut Sharma, Siddharth Singh Chauhan, Pawan Agrawal

“…Conclusion – Teenage women were more likely to have preterm births and low birth weight babies. However, they were less likely to have delivery by episiotomy, forceps or vacuum and Caesarean sections. …”
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The Association between Gestational Age and Risk for Long Term Ophthalmic Morbidities among Offspring Delivered in Different Preterm Subgroups by Erez Tsumi, Itai Hazan, Tamir Regev, Samuel Leeman, Chiya Barrett, Noa Fried Regev, Eyal Sheiner

“…All infants were divided into four groups according to gestational age categories: extremely preterm births, very preterm births, moderate to late preterm births and term deliveries (reference group). …”
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Reproductive Losses and Their Causes in Alpacas—A Survey-Based Study by Joanna Kapustka, Monika Budzyńska

“…The study aimed to analyze the frequency and causes of reproduction-related problems in alpacas, in particular miscarriages, stillbirths, preterm births, twin pregnancies, and falls of crias within 12 months after birth. …”
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Bleeding before the 22th week of pregnancy: clinical pattern, diagnosis, haemostatic therapy by N. K. Tetruashvili, A. A. Agadzhanova, T. B. Ionanidze

“…The global approach to registering perinatal mortality calls for prevention of complications starting from early pregnancy in order to avoid extremely preterm births.…”
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Clinical Presentation and Birth Outcomes Associated with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Pregnancy. by Helen Y Chu, Joanne Katz, James Tielsch, Subarna K Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Steven C LeClerq, Amalia Magaret, Jane Kuypers, Mark C Steinhoff, Janet A Englund

“…This compares to 469 (13%) preterm births and a median birthweight of 2790 grams in women without RSV during pregnancy. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF RISK FACTORS OF OBSTETRIC STATUS ASSOCIATED WITH PREMATURE BIRTHS IN WOMEN IN CHILDBIRTH by Irena Hristova

“…Maternal pelvic size abnormalities (OR=3.31), breech presentation (OR=7.35), placental abnormalities (OR=4.23), caesarean birth (OR=2.28) increased the risk of preterm births and low birth weight. Conclusions: There are many RFs associated with preterm births and low birth weight. …”
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Preterm, early term, and post-term infants from Riyadh mother and baby multicenter cohort study: The cohort profile by Amel Fayed, Hayfaa A. Wahabi, Hayfaa A. Wahabi, Samia Esmaeil, Hala Elmorshedy, Hilala AlAniezy

“…Hypertensive events during pregnancy consistently increased the risk of all grades of preterm births, from more than 3-fold for late preterm (OR = 3.40, 95% CI = 2.21–5.23) to nearly 7-fold for extremely early preterm (OR = 7.11, 95% CI = 2.24–22.60). …”
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The effect of increased bilirubin level on the risk of cerebral palsy by Sternal Marta, Kwiatkowska Barbara, Borysławski Krzysztof, Tomaszewska Agnieszka

“…The objective of the study was the analysis of its effect on the risk of cerebral palsy, considering all the significant risk factors as well as division into singleton, twin, term and preterm births. The research included a group of 278 children with cerebral palsy from selected educational-therapeutic institutions in Poland. …”
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Meta-analysis approach on iron fortification and its effect on pregnancy and its outcome through randomized, controlled trials by Ramesh Athe, Rinshu Dwivedi, Sanghamitra Pati, Anindita Mazumder, Udit Banset

“…Meta-analyses were performed to calculate summary estimates on Hb during pregnancy, low birth weight (LBW), and preterm births. The weighted mean difference (WMD) and relative risk (RR) were calculated using random-effects models. …”
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Clustering of socioeconomic, behavioural, and neonatal risk factors for infant health in pregnant smokers. by Caren I Lanting, Simone E Buitendijk, Matty R Crone, Dewi Segaar, Jack Bennebroek Gravenhorst, Jacobus P van Wouwe

“…If pregnant women were to cease tobacco use completely, an estimated 29% of extremely preterm births and 17% of SGA infants may be avoided annually.…”
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Disentangling the effects of risk factors and clinical care on subnational variation in early neonatal mortality in the United States. by Lahn D Straney, Stephen S Lim, Christopher J L Murray

“…CONCLUSION: Improvements in mortality could be realized through the expansion or reallocation of clinical neonatal resources, particularly in HSAs with a high volume of preterm births; however, prevention of preterm births and low-birth weight babies has a greater potential to improve newborn survival in the United States.…”
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Baixo peso ao nascer em duas coortes de base populacional no Sul do Brasil Low birthweight in two population-based cohorts in southern Brazil by Bernardo L. Horta, Fernando C. Barros, Ricardo Halpern, Cesar G. Victora

“…This study's objective was to compare occurrence of low birthweight, preterm births, and intrauterine growth retardation in two cohorts born in the years 1982 and 1993 in Pelotas, Southern Brazil. …”
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