Sökning: "small-for-gestational age"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 89 avhandlingar innehållade orden small-for-gestational age.

1. 21. 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

   Författare :Monica Lagerström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   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

3. 22. Apnea, small for date and autonomic imbalance : risk factors in relation to SIDS

   Författare :Ann Edner; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS ; Apparent Life Threatening Event ALTE ; Small for Gestational Age SGA ; Tilt test; Heart Rate Variability HR V ;

   Sammanfattning : SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) is defined as an infant who has died suddenly and its cause "remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history". An infant who during sleep has been found apneic, pale or cyanotic and limp, and has required either vigorous stimulation or cardiopulmonary resuscitation is defined to have been affected of an Apparent Life Threatening Event (ALTE). LÄS MER

4. 23. Family studies of schizophrenia and pregnancy outcomes

   Författare :Anna Svensson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Alternating logistic regression; environment; familial aggregation; fertility; generalized estimating equations; genes; obstetric complications; preterm birth; siblings; schizophrenia; small for gestational age; variance components;

   Sammanfattning : Why do psychiatric diseases run in families? Why do some women tend to have similar obstetric complications in subsequent pregnancies? The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate how genes and environments contribute to the aggregation of schizophrenia and adverse pregnancy outcomes in some families. Further, we also studied the fertility in families of patients with schizophrenia. LÄS MER

5. 24. Does cancer originate in utero?

   Författare :Magnus Kaijser; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Epidemiology; prenatal exposure delayed effects; breast neoplasms; testicular neoplasms; lung neoplasms; pregnancy; estrogens; estriol; low birth weight body weight; height; twins; matemal exposure; smoking; infant premature; small for gestational age.;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present thesis was to evaluate Trichopoulos' hypothesis that breast cancer can originate in utero, and to examine the role of antenatal estrogen exposure in the etiology of testicular cancer. First, we used data from a Swedish-Norwegian cohort study on risk factors for small-for-gestational-age births to identify markers for antenatal estrogen exposure. LÄS MER

7. 25. Monitoring pregnancy for improved perinatal outcome in Mozambique

   Författare :Kenneth Challis; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Preterm birth; small for gestational age; low birth weight; anthropometry; socioeconomical factors; birth weight; genital infections; intrauterine fetal death; symphysis-fundus height; fetal growth; gestational diabetes; HbA1c; syphilis; intervention; malaria; sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine; Mozambique;

   Sammanfattning : The general aim was to monitor pregnancy for improved perinatal outcome in Mozambique. A cohort of 817 Mozambican pregnant women were followed from their first antenatal clinic visit to the end of the perinatal period in two suburban/semirural antenatal clinics in Maputo. Nine percent were lost to follow-up. LÄS MER