ArticleAmerican journal of public health2018
Intermittent Preventive Therapy in Pregnancy and Incidence of Low Birth Weight in Malaria-Endemic Countries.
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- Beyond malaria: can intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine reduce the number of small vulnerable newborns globally?The Lancet. Global health · 2026Review
- Impact on pregnancy outcomes of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in urban and peri-urban Papua New Guinea: a retrospective cohort study.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Predictors of birth weight in pregnant women with malaria: a prospective cohort facility-based study in Webuye-Kenya.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
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- Effect of out-of-village working activities on recent malaria exposure in the Peruvian Amazon using parametric g-formula.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Association between indoor residual spraying and pregnancy outcomes: a quasi-experimental study from Uganda.International journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- The relationship between markers of antenatal iron stores and birth outcomes differs by malaria prevention regimen-a prospective cohort study.BMC medicine · 2021Article
- Poor Birth Outcomes in Malaria in Pregnancy: Recent Insights Into Mechanisms and Prevention Approaches.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
- Two-stage g-computation: Evaluating Treatment and Intervention Impacts in Observational Cohorts When Exposure Information Is Partly Missing.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020Article
- Malaria-Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in Guinea.Journal of tropical medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo estimate the impact of hypothetical antimalarial and nutritional interventions (which reduce the prevalence of low midupper arm circumference [MUAC]) on the incidence of low birth weight (LBW).
methodsWe analyzed data from 14 633 pregnancies from 13 studies conducted across Africa and the Western Pacific from 1996 to 2015. We calculated population intervention effects for increasing intermittent preventive therapy in pregnancy (IPTp), full coverage with bed nets, reduction in malaria infection at delivery, and reductions in the prevalence of low MUAC.
resultsWe estimated that, compared with observed IPTp use, administering 3 or more doses of IPTp to all women would decrease the incidence of LBW from 9.9% to 6.9% (risk difference = 3.0%; 95% confidence interval = 1.7%, 4.0%). The intervention effects for eliminating malaria at delivery, increasing bed net ownership, and decreasing low MUAC prevalence were all modest.
conclusionsIncreasing IPTp uptake to at least 3 doses could decrease the incidence of LBW in malaria-endemic countries. The impact of IPTp on LBW was greater than the effect of prevention of malaria, consistent with a nonmalarial effect of IPTp, measurement error, or selection bias.
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