Performance of a new pubertal self-assessment questionnaire: a preliminary study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preterm birth leads to an estimated 35% of neonatal deaths worldwide. Our study analyses neonatal mortality risks among preterm births in rural Bangladesh. METHODS:Trained community health workers (CHW) prospectively collected data between June 2007 and September 2009. RESULTS:Among 32 126 livebirths, 22.3...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Shah R,Mullany LC,Darmstadt GL,Talukder RR,Rahman SM,Mannan I,Arifeen SE,Baqui AH,ProjAHNMo Study Group in Bangladesh.

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the importance of measuring early vaginal levels of eight bacterial vaginosis (BV)-associated bacteria, at two points in pregnancy, and the risk of spontaneous preterm delivery (SPTD) among pregnant women and the subgroup of pregnant women with a history of preterm delivery (PTD). METHODS:This ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Nelson DB,Hanlon A,Nachamkin I,Haggerty C,Mastrogiannis DS,Liu C,Fredricks DN

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nutritional status of a woman before and during pregnancy is important for a healthy pregnancy outcome. Maternal malnutrition is a key contributor to poor fetal growth, low birthweight (LBW) and short- and long-term infant morbidity and mortality. This review summarised the evidence on association of maternal nutr...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Imdad A,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitively delayed children are at risk for poor mental and physical health throughout their lives. The economically disadvantaged and some race/ethnic groups are more likely to experience cognitive delay, but the age at which delays first emerge and the underlying mechanisms responsible for disparities are not well ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Hillemeier MM,Farkas G,Morgan PL,Martin MA,Maczuga SA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based study was conducted using maternally-linked birth certificate records from Washington State for 1980-93 to evaluate the risk of birth defect occurrence among infants with previously affected siblings, relative to infants whose siblings did not have birth defects. The risks of recurrence of similar a...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Mueller BA,Schwartz SM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While there is evidence of an association between caesarean birth and increased asthma in children in high-income countries, it is unknown whether this association exists in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). We investigated whether children born through caesarean in India and Vietnam are at increased r...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Lavin T,Franklin P,Preen DB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insufficient supply of vitamin D during early development may negatively affect offspring growth. METHODS:We examined the association between umbilical cord (UC) serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations and infant size in a study of two Faroese birth cohorts of 1038 singleton infants. In the third...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Dalgård C,Petersen MS,Steuerwald U,Weihe P,Grandjean P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates maternal age, race, cigarette smoking, prior spontaneous abortion, prior induced abortion, and prior preterm birth in relation to vaginal bleeding during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. Information on vaginal bleeding and predictors came from the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study, w...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Yang J,Savitz DA,Dole N,Hartmann KE,Herring AH,Olshan AF,Thorp JM Jr

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evidence that relates malnutrition to enteroparasite infections arises from studies that demonstrate the improvement of nutritional indicators after antiparasitism treatment. However, the role of malnutrition as an aggravating factor to the susceptibility to enteroparasite infections is still not fully understood....

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Saldiva SR,Carvalho HB,Castilho VP,Struchiner CJ,Massad E

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is variability between women for days of menstrual bleeding, cycle lengths, follicular phase lengths, and luteal phase lengths, related to age and parity. OBJECTIVE:To describe total cycle length; anovulatory cycles; follicular and luteal phase lengths; and days and intensity of menstrual and non-mens...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Najmabadi S,Schliep KC,Simonsen SE,Porucznik CA,Egger MJ,Stanford JB

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrence risk provides information on the heterogeneity of risk in the population, and thus is useful for aetiological studies. While recurrence risk is observable in many areas of epidemiology, it is particularly accessible in the study of perinatal events. High recurrence rates of pregnancy problems suggest geneti...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Wilcox AJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference data describing weight, length, and head circumference (anthropometric measurements) at birth were published by Lubchenco and Usher before 1970. Few attempts have been made to investigate whether these data are appropriate for today's cohort of preterm neonates. We analysed anthropometric data for neonates b...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Karna P,Brooks K,Muttineni J,Karmaus W

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we have examined the early life predictors of smoking at age 14 in a birth cohort of individuals born in Brisbane, Australia between 1981 and 1984. In stratified and multivariable analyses maternal smoking throughout pregnancy and when the child was aged 14 were both associated with the child smoking: fu...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Lawlor DA,O'Callaghan MJ,Mamun AA,Williams GM,Bor W,Najman JM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age at menarche is correlated within families, but estimates of the heritability of menarcheal age have a wide range (0.45-0.95). We examined the familial resemblance for age at menarche and the extent to which this is due to genetic and shared environmental factors. Between 2003 and 2010 data were retrospectively col...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Morris DH,Jones ME,Schoemaker MJ,Ashworth A,Swerdlow AJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case-control studies of clinic samples constitute the usual research method for the investigation of the causes and course of psychiatric disorder. However, they carry substantial disadvantages and if causal hypotheses are to be tested in rigorous fashion, it is necessary to use longitudinal research strategies applie...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Rutter M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies using vital records-based maternal weight data have become more common, but the validity of these data is uncertain. METHODS:We evaluated the accuracy of prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) reported on birth certificates using medical record data in 1204 births at a ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Bodnar LM,Abrams B,Bertolet M,Gernand AD,Parisi SM,Himes KP,Lash TL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) accounts for the largest number of deaths during the first year of life in developed countries. The possible causes of SIDS are numerous and, to date, there is no adequate unifying pathological explanation for SIDS. Epidemiological studies have played a key role in identifying risk ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Sullivan FM,Barlow SM

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a risk factor for delivering a large-for-gestational-age (LGA) infant. Haemoglobin A1c (A1C) is an indicator of glycaemic control. The objective of this study was to test whether higher A1C quartile at the time of diagnosis of GDM is associated with increased risk of delivering a...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Katon J,Reiber G,Williams MA,Yanez D,Miller E

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Singleton survivors born to multigravidae in the whole island of Jamaica in 2 months (September-October 1986) were compared with singleton perinatal deaths occurring to multigravidae throughout the island in the 12-month period September 1986 to August 1987. Past obstetric history was obtained from the mothers using a...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Greenwood R,Samms-Vaughan M,Golding J,Ashley D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms that underlie successful human reproduction and development is an ambitious goal, given the many unique methodological challenges surrounding such study. These challenges are well understood by reproductive and perinatal epidemiologists and include its conditional nature, unobservable yet ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Buck Louis GM,Yeung E,Sundaram R,Laughon SK,Zhang C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longer-term follow-up of infants with specific health concerns, such as low birthweight, is critical to assessing the effect of medical interventions. This report examines the approach of reconstructing previously studied cohorts in terms of the factors discriminating between respondents and non-respondents. Follow-up...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： McCormick MC,Baker J,Brooks-Gunn J,Turner J,Workman-Daniels K,Peckham GJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic reviews are used by clinicians, policy makers and consumers of health care, and should provide up-to-date evidence for clinical decision making. Motivating systematic review authors to update reviews is a challenge, and despite resources such as methodologists and statisticians, many reviews are not updated...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Ervin AM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using national data, we develop and contrast the birth-weight percentiles for gestational age by infants of extremely-low-risk (ELR) White and African-American women and examine racial differences in the proportion of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) births. We then scrutinise racial variations in infant mortality rate...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Alexander GR,Kogan MD,Himes JH,Mor JM,Goldenberg R

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Intergrowth-21st (IG) project proposed prescriptive fetal growth standards for global use based on ultrasound measurements from a multicounty study of low-risk pregnancies selected using strict criteria. We examined whether the IG standards are appropriate for fetal growth monitoring in France and whethe...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Heude B,Le Guern M,Forhan A,Scherdel P,Kadawathagedara M,Dufourg MN,Bois C,Cheminat M,Goffinet F,Botton J,Charles MA,Zeitlin J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide cross-sectional survey covering the perinatal period was attempted throughout Greece for the 30 consecutive days of April 1983. It aimed to determine the perinatal mortality rate (PNMR) and the way it varied in the country in relation to underlying demographic, biological, socioeconomic and medical factor...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Tzoumaka-Bakoula C

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clarke et al. suggested that women who have had a spontaneous abortion are at an increased risk in their next pregnancy of producing an offspring with a neural tube defect (NTD). A matched case-control study was carried out to test the related hypothesis that a spontaneous abortion occurring in the 6-month period prio...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Kurinczuk JJ,Clarke M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies of the association between tobacco smoke and hearing loss in children are limited, involve small samples and are cross-sectional. We investigated the association of maternal smoking during pregnancy and exposure to tobacco smoke at age 4 months with hearing impairment at age 3 years in child...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Wilunda C,Yoshida S,Tanaka S,Kanazawa Y,Kimura T,Kawakami K

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A few studies have indicated an increased risk of epilepsy in children conceived by fertility treatment possibly due to characteristics of the infertile couple rather than the treatment. We therefore aimed to investigate the association between parental infertility, fertility treatment, and epilepsy in the o...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Kettner LO,Ramlau-Hansen CH,Kesmodel US,Bay B,Matthiesen NB,Henriksen TB

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on a limited scale in urban settings of Bangladesh report stillbirth rates that do not specifically provide information on the situation of underprivileged slum populations. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of, and risk factors associated with, stillbirth in a developing population. METHOD...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Nahar S,Rahman A,Nasreen HE

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the preventable fraction of low birthweight (LBW) deliveries due to maternal exposure to air pollution during pregnancy in Korea, it is important to quantify the population-attributable risk (PAR). Thus, we investigated the association between maternal exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and LBW, ...

journal_title：Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

authors： Seo JH,Leem JH,Ha EH,Kim OJ,Kim BM,Lee JY,Park HS,Kim HC,Hong YC,Kim YJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00