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Maternal anemia and birth weight: A prospective cohort study.
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- The relationship between maternal health and neonatal low birth weight in Amman, Jordan: a case-control study.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Article
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- Non-linear connections between maternal hemoglobin during the third trimester of pregnancy and birth weight outcomes in full-term newborns: Estimating the breakpoints.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Multigravida Women With Moderate to Severe Anaemia in Third Trimester: Fetomaternal Outcomes.Cureus · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the association between maternal anemia and low/insufficient birth weight.
designA prospective cohort study of pregnant women who underwent prenatal care at the healthcare units in a municipality of northeast Brazil together with their newborn infants was carried out. The pregnant women were classified as having anemia when the hemoglobin level was below 11 g/dl. Infants who were born full term weighing less than 2500 grams were classified as low birth weight, and those weighing between 2500 and 2999 grams were classified as insufficient weight. The occurrence of maternal anemia and its association with birth weight was verified using crude and adjusted Relative Risk (RR) estimates with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95%CIs).
resultsThe final sample was comprised of 622 women. Maternal anemia was considered a risk factor for low/insufficient birth weight, after adjusting the effect measurement for maternal age, family income, urinary infection, parity, alcoholic beverage consumption during pregnancy and gestational body mass index: RRadjusted = 1.38 [95% CI: 1.07 to 1.77].
conclusionsMaternal anemia was associated with low/insufficient birth weight, representing a risk factor for the gestational outcomes studied.
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