Do premature female infants really do better than their male counterparts?

JL Zisk, LH Genen, S Kirkby, D Webb… - American journal of …, 2011 - thieme-connect.com
We compared survival and outcomes in process of care in female versus male infants
born≤ 32 weeks gestational age (GA). Data were obtained from the Alere database for …

Sex differences in outcomes of very low birthweight infants: the newborn male disadvantage

DK Stevenson, J Verter, AA Fanaroff, W Oh… - Archives of disease in …, 2000 - fn.bmj.com
OBJECTIVE To determine the differences in short term outcome of very low birthweight
infants attributable to sex. METHODS Boys and girls weighing 501–1500 g admitted to the …

778: Impact of gender on neonatal and infant death

B Sabol, J Page, A Caughey - American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2015 - ajog.org
Objective Gender specific neonatal mortality consistently shows male neonates have a
higher rate or neonatal mortality than their female counterparts. The goal of this study is to …

Response to Therapeutic Interventions in the NICU: Role of Sex as a Biological Variable

R Albert, A Lee, K Lingappan - NeoReviews, 2023 - publications.aap.org
Sex as a biological variable plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of specific diseases
and can have a potential impact on the response to therapies and disease outcomes. Sex …

Racial segregation and inequality in the neonatal intensive care unit for very low-birth-weight and very preterm infants

JD Horbar, EM Edwards, LT Greenberg, J Profit… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality health care than white non-
Hispanic individuals in the United States. Where minority infants receive care and the role …

Racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes after NICU discharge: An equity-focused model

DC Murosko, MM Peña, SA Lorch - Seminars in Perinatology, 2022 - Elsevier
Significant racial and ethnic disparities exist in birth outcomes and complications related to
prematurity. However, little is known about racial and ethnic variations in health outcomes …

Transforming risk factors into an unbiased mortality model

J Schulman - Journal of Perinatology, 2008 - nature.com
What explains 'higher mortality'at neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in children's
hospitals compared to perinatal center NICUs? Patients at children's hospital NICUs may …

Effect of gender on growth-restricted fetuses born preterm

T Štimac, AM Šopić-Rahelić, J Ivandić… - Journal of perinatal …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Objective To assess the effect of fetal gender in small-for-gestational age (SGA) neonates
with birth weight less than the fifth percentile by gestational age. Methods We compared …

Changes in causes of mortality in very low birth weight neonates

Z Stranak, P Velebil, Z Stembera - Ceska Gynekologie, 2002 - europepmc.org
[Changes in causes of mortality in very low birth weight neonates]. - Abstract - Europe PMC
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Analysis of neonatal mortality: is standardizing for relative birth weight biased?

RW Platt, CV Ananth, MS Kramer - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2004 - Springer
Background Infant mortality has traditionally been analyzed as a function of birth weight and
birth weight-specific mortality. Often, however, when comparing two populations, the …