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Birth Weight

 
 
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Chemical compound and disease context of Birth Weight

  • Women who had positive assays for cocaine, as compared with nonusers, had infants with a 93-g decrease in birth weight (P = 0.07), a 0.7-cm decrement in length (P = 0.01), and a 0.43-cm-smaller head circumference (P = 0.01) [16].
  • Exposing pregnant rats to carbon monoxide (150 parts per million) produced only minor reductions in the birth weights of the pups and gave no evidence of overt teratogenesis [17].
  • Prednisone therapy and birth weight [18].
  • In contrast to previous reports, the HbA1c values did not predict abnormal maternal glucose tolerance or infant birth weight [19].
  • RESULTS--The three groups of patients were comparable in birth weight, gestational age, antenatal administration of betamethasone, and other perinatal characteristics [20].
  • The biological mechanism behind this association may involve insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), which is associated with high birth weight [21].
 

Biological context of Birth Weight

 

Anatomical context of Birth Weight

 

Gene context of Birth Weight

  • OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the association between maternal cigarette smoking and infant birth weight differs by polymorphisms of 2 maternal metabolic genes: CYP1A1 and GSTT1 [22].
  • In preeclamptic patients, a positive correlation between birth weight and PAI-2 values was observed (r = .64, P less than .05), whereas birth weight was inversely correlated with both PAI-1 levels and total PAI activity (r = -.6, P less than .005 and r = -.76, P less than .005 respectively) [31].
  • These data show that the biological function of imprinting Igf2r is to increase birth weight and they also establish Igf2r as the Tme gene [32].
  • Here we show that administration of carbenoxolone, an inhibitor of placental 11 beta-HSD 2, to pregnant rats, leads to a significant reduction in average birth weight (20% fall) [33].
  • IGF-II was weakly related to ponderal index (r = 0.18; P < 0.05) and placental weight (r = 0.18; P < 0.05), and the molar ratio of IGF-II to IGF2R was also related to birth weight (r = 0.15; P < 0.05) [34].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Birth Weight

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