News tagged with birth size


Birth size is a marker of susceptibility to breast cancer later in life

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Birth size, and in particular birth length, correlates with subsequent risk of breast cancer in adulthood, according to a new study published in PLoS Medicine by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medici ...





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'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...


Low birth weight linked to psychosis-like symptoms

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Low birth weight babies are at greater risk of developing psychosis-like symptoms as they grow up, research suggests. The study, published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, shows a link ...


Poor sleep in children may have prenatal origins

Medicine & Health / Health

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

A study in the Aug.1 issue of the journal Sleep found that alcohol consumption during pregnancy and small body size at birth predict poorer sleep and higher risk of sleep disturbances in 8-year-old children born at term. ...


Study: Continuous oral contraceptives best

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A U.S. study suggests continuous oral contraceptives might be more effective than standard 28-day birth control pills.


Diabetes gene raises odds of lower birth weight

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pediatric researchers have found that a gene previously shown to be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes also predisposes children to having a lower birth weight. The finding sheds light on a possible genetic influence ...


'Bigger the baby, the better' axiom is incorrect

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 17, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Contrary to popular belief and alerts by the World Health Organization, new research by the George Institute for International Health indicates that the importance of the reported relationship between birth weight and coronary ...


Association between low birth weight, excessive weight gain and heart problems in later life

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers who have followed 5,840 people from before birth to the age of 31 have found evidence suggesting that small size at birth and excessive weight gain during adolescence and young adulthood may lead to low grade ...


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Why newborn babies can't walk

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first steps of an infant is a real milestone in the development of all mammals including humans, but little is known about why some animals can walk soon after birth, while others need ...


Playing sport up to the end of pregnancy is healthy for the baby and the mother

Playing sport up to the end of pregnancy is healthy for the baby and the mother

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Contrary to more conservative customs, exercising up to the end of pregnancy has no harmful effect on the weight or size of the foetus. This is what has been indicated in a study carried out by researchers ...


Pregnant women who smoke, urged to give up before 15-week 'deadline'

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women who stop smoking before week 15 of pregnancy cut their risk of spontaneous premature birth and having small babies to the same as non-smokers, according to research published on bmj.com today.



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