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SIDS link: Low blood pressure in preterm infants

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists from Monash University, Melbourne have shown that infants born prematurely have lower blood pressure during sleep in the first six months of life, compared to healthy, full-term infants.


Pregnancy and tobacco a 'smoking gun' for baby: Study

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monash University researchers have shown that babies born to a mother who smokes are more likely to be slower to wake or respond to stimulation - and this may explain their increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).


Even mildly premature infants have increased risk of a common respiratory tract infection

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created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even mildly premature infants (gestational ages of 33 weeks through 36 weeks) have an increased risk of medically attended respiratory syncytial virus infection, which is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection ...


Flu vaccine given to women during pregnancy keeps infants out of the hospital

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infants born to women who received influenza vaccine during pregnancy were hospitalized at a lower rate than infants born to unvaccinated mothers, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study by researchers at Yale ...


More infants surviving pre-term births results in higher rates of eye problems

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created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As more extremely pre-term infants survive in Sweden, an increasing number of babies are experiencing vision problems caused by abnormalities involving the retina, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of ...


Maternal depression is associated with significant sleep disturbance in infants

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created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that babies born to mothers with depression are more likely to suffer from significant sleep disturbances at 2 weeks postpartum that continue until 6 months of age ...


Likelihood of survival may be improving for extremely preterm infants

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created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infants born extremely preterm are surviving at a high rate, with about 70 percent of infants born alive between 22 and 26 weeks of gestation in Sweden surviving at least one year, with high rates of interventions being used ...


New, simple method identifies preterm infants at risk of eye disease

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created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A simple way of establishing which preterm infants are at risk of developing the eye disease ROP is to follow their weight gain. A new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, suggests that following ...


Analysis of millions of US births shows association between birth defects and preterm birth

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created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Babies born preterm were more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term infants, according to a new analysis of nearly 7 million U.S. live births published online this week in the Springer journal Maternal an ...


Newborns of South Asian and East Asian descent misclassified as underweight at birth: Study

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Babies of East Asian and South Asian descent are between two and three times more likely to be misclassified as underweight at birth when compared to their Canadian counterparts, according to a study led by St. Michael's ...


Preterm birth contributes to growing number of infant deaths

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created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Babies born too soon and too small accounted for a growing proportion of infant deaths, according to new statistics released today from the National Center for Health Statistics, (NCHS).


Extended infant antiretroviral prophylaxis reduces HIV risk during breastfeeding

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 05, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In many resource-poor countries, infants born to mothers with HIV receive a single dose of nevirapine (NVP) and a one-week dose of zidovudine (ZDV) to prevent transmission of HIV from the mother to her newborn. The results ...


Scientists identify gene for deadly inherited lung disease

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created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A rare, deadly developmental disorder of the lungs called alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) that usually kills the infants born with it within the first month of life results from ...


Secondhand smoke increases hospital admissions for all types of infectious diseases

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created May 28, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Children exposed to second hand tobacco smoke are more likely to get severe infectious diseases and have to be admitted to hospital, finds research published online ahead of print in Tobacco Control.


Study examines interventions for extremely preterm infants

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When compared with infants born between 1993 and 1995, more infants born at 22 to 24 weeks' gestation at one academic medical center in 2001 to 2003 received life-sustaining interventions but were no more likely to survive, ...