Infant mortality (IM) and birth outcomes, key population health indicators, have lifelong
implications for individuals, and are unequally distributed globally. Even among western …

The worldwide epidemic of obesity continues unabated. Obesity is notoriously difficult to
treat, and, thus, prevention is critical. A new paradigm for prevention, which evolved from the …

Systematically review risks of an infant being born with low birth weight (LBW), preterm birth
(PTB) or small for gestational age (SGA) among married and unmarried women. Medline …

Human diseases in adulthood are increasingly associated with growth patterns in early life,
implicating early‐life nutrition as the underlying mechanism. The thrifty phenotype …

OBJECTIVE. Methamphetamine use among pregnant women is an increasing problem in
the United States. Effects of methamphetamine use during pregnancy on fetal growth have …

Nørgaard M, Larsson H, Pedersen L, Granath F, Askling J, Kieler H, Ekbom A, Sørensen HT,
Stephansson O (Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska …

Objective To assess the risk factors and outcome of pregnancy outside marriage in the
1990s, in conditions of a high percentage of extramarital pregnancies and high standard …

Birth weight has correlated positively with adult body mass index (BMI), but rarely have birth
length, duration of gestation, or parents' body size been taken into account. The authors …

The present study examines the sex-specific patterns of mortality by birth order in four stages
of the life-course, using Poisson and logistic regression analysis. The main question posed …

BACKGROUND: We undertook this study to explore the relationship between birth weight
(BW) and childhood overweight and obesity (OW/OB) and metabolic syndrome (MS) …