Sökning: "pre-and perinatal"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden pre-and perinatal.
1. Pre- and perinatal factors in long-term development : behavioral and intellectual performance for boys and girls at school age as related to birth weight and gestational age, with special regard to maternal hormone levels and smoking during pregnancy
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present work was to investigate long-term intellectual and behavioral development in relation to pre- and perinatal factors, with emphasis on birth weight and gestational age, for boys and girls at school age. The first part of the work consists of a short-term longitudinal clinical study of pregnant women in risk pregnancies. LÄS MER
2. Ophthalmologic characteristics andneuropediatric findings. With special emphasis on children adopted from eastern Europe
Sammanfattning : Aim: To evaluate and relate visual function and ocular features to neuropediatric findings in a population-based group of children adopted from eastern Europe (Papers I-III) and in children with attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), with and without treatment with stimulants (Paper IV).Methods: 99 children born 1990 1995 in eastern Europe and adopted to western Sweden during1993 1997 were invited to participate. LÄS MER
3. Perinatal and familial risk factors of youth suicidal behaviour
Sammanfattning : Completed suicide constitutes one of the leading causes of death in adolescents and young adults. Youth suicide attempt often precedes completed suicide and represents in itself a considerable public health problem in Sweden and in other European countries. LÄS MER
4. Perinatal determinants of type 1 diabetes - A social epidemiological perspective
Sammanfattning : Background and Aims: While the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in childhood is in part genetically conditioned, non-genetic/environmental factors seem to play a decisive role in its aetiology. The incidence of T1D has been increasing rapidly during the last years, and its prevalence is higher in countries of high economical welfare like Sweden. LÄS MER
5. Perinatal nicotine exposure. Effects on the defense against hypoxia in lambs
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether perinatal nicotine exposure could impair cardiorespiratory defense mechanisms to hypoxia. The rationale for this approach is that exposure to tobacco smoke, particularly before birth, is a risk factor for the sudden infant death syndrome as well as for obstructive airway disease in childhood. LÄS MER