The factors affecting morbidity and mortality in low birth-weight infants

In the classical regression model for full-term live born infants, the risk factors for low birth weight (simplified small-for-gestational-age) were somewhat higher than for

Despite the presence of many predetermined factors that increase neonatal morbidity and mortality (prematurity, very low weight, intrauterine growth retardation, poor birth

Objective: To assess the prevalence, spirometry findings and risk factors for asthma in schoolchildren who were very low birth weight infants with and without

Risk factors for late onset gram-negative sepsis in low birth weight infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit. Herrmann DMML, Amaral LMB,

A Brazilian study that evaluated factors related to mortality and morbidity in very low birth weight newborns identi fi ed, as relevant risk factors, a gestational age of less than

Objective: To determine the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, its risk factors and resource utilization in a large South American population of very low birth weight

Birth weight-specific mortality for extremely low birth weight infants vanishes by four days of life: epidemiology and ethics in the neonatal intensive care unit... Ambalavanan N,

his study found that the motor behavior of very low birth weight premature infants was worse than that of low birth weight premature infants, and, in the age groups evaluated,