ReviewBJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology2011
Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Methodology of assessment and reporting of safety in anti-malarial treatment efficacy studies of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in pregnancy: a systematic literature review.Malaria journal · 2017Pooled it
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- Weight change during the first week of life and a new method for retrospective prediction of birthweight among exclusively breastfed newborns.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2022Trial
- Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine plus azithromycin may improve birth outcomes through impacts on inflammation and placental angiogenesis independent of malarial infection.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine plus azithromycin for the prevention of low birthweight in Papua New Guinea: a randomised controlled trial.BMC medicine · 2015Trial
- Consequences of gestational malaria on birth weight: finding the best timeframe for intermittent preventive treatment administration.PloS one · 2012Trial
- Severe falciparum malaria in pregnancy in Southeast Asia: a multi-centre retrospective cohort study.BMC medicine · 2023Article
- Intermittent preventive treatment and malaria amongst pregnant women who give birth at the Centre Hospitalier Régional Paul Moukambi de Koula-Moutou in southeastern Gabon.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- Long-term neurocognitive and educational outcomes of neonatal insults in Kilifi, Kenya.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- The assessment of gestational age: a comparison of different methods from a malaria pregnancy cohort in sub-Saharan Africa.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Article
- Indirect neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in hospitalized neonates on the Thai-Myanmar border: a review of neonatal medical records from 2009 to 2014.BMC pediatrics · 2018Article
- Prevalence of Low Birth Weight before and after Policy Change to IPTp-SP in Two Selected Hospitals in Southern Nigeria: Eleven-Year Retrospective Analyses.BioMed research international · 2018Article
- Effects of Plasmodium falciparum infection on umbilical artery resistance and intrafetal blood flow distribution: a Doppler ultrasound study from Papua New Guinea.Malaria journal · 2017Article
- Maternal Malaria and Malnutrition (M3) initiative, a pooled birth cohort of 13 pregnancy studies in Africa and the Western Pacific.BMJ open · 2016Article
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- Azithromycin-containing intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy affects gestational weight gain, an important predictor of birthweight in Papua New Guinea - an exploratory analysis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2016Article
- Towards a strategy for malaria in pregnancy in Afghanistan: analysis of clinical realities and women's perceptions of malaria and anaemia.Malaria journal · 2015Article
- Ultrasound findings in pregnant women with uncomplicated vivax malaria in the Brazilian Amazon: a cohort study.Malaria journal · 2015Article
- Preterm or not--an evaluation of estimates of gestational age in a cohort of women from Rural Papua New Guinea.PloS one · 2015Article
- Quantifying low birth weight, preterm birth and small-for-gestational-age effects of malaria in pregnancy: a population cohort study.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
Recommendations for interventions to control malaria in pregnancy are often based on studies using birthweight as the primary endpoint. Differences in birthweight may be attributable partly to methodological difficulties. We performed a structured search of the literature using 'malaria', 'pregnancy' and 'birth weight' as search terms. Of the clinical trials reporting birthweight, only 33% (14/43) gave information about the timing of the measurement and details on the scales used. Seventy seven per cent explained how gestational age was estimated. We propose a standardised method for the measurement and reporting of birthweight in future studies.
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