scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING EARLY WEIGHT GAIN OF PRETERM BABIES ADMITTED IN SULAIMANI NEONATAL CARE UNIT

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-322
Author(s):  
Hevin Jaafar Ali ◽  
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Adnan Mohammed Hasan ◽  
Jamal Mohammed Hussein ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Neonatal Care ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Early Weight Gain ◽  
Preterm Babies ◽  
Neonatal Care Unit

scholarly journals Neonatal Cholestasis: A Pandora’s Box

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 117955651880541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aakash Pandita ◽  
Vishal Gupta ◽  
Girish Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Biliary Atresia ◽  
Neonatal Care ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Neonatal Cholestasis ◽  
Diagnostic Dilemma ◽  
Preterm Babies ◽  
High Hazard ◽  
Neonatal Care Unit ◽  
Prolonged Jaundice

Neonatal cholestasis (NC) is a diagnostic dilemma frequently countered in a neonatal care unit. Early diagnosis is vital for achieving an optimal patient outcome as many causes of cholestasis such as biliary atresia are time-sensitive and amenable to treatment if analyzed and treated early. Nonetheless, it is not generally simple to analyze these cases right on time as some of them are regularly missed due to the presence of pigmented stools, lack of newborn metabolic screening, and named as instances of prolonged jaundice. In this manner, we prescribe to explore all reasons for prolonged jaundice stretching out past 14 days in neonates. Besides, we suggest that stool card ought to be a piece of release rundown for all newborn children being released from the nursery. This is of most extreme significance in the nation like India where guaranteeing customary follow-up is as yet a tough assignment. These stool cards will help in the early determination of patients with NC particularly biliary atresia and guarantee their auspicious cure. Another reason which needs exceptional say is parenteral nutrition–associated liver illness, as the proportion of preterm babies is getting greater and greater with better neonatal care. These extreme preterm infants are in the requirement for prolonged (>14 days) total parenteral nourishment because of which they are at high hazard for NC contrasted with their more developed peers. In this survey, we will give an understanding of clinical approach, differential diagnosis, and clinical review of NC.

scholarly journals Early weight gain trajectories and body composition in infancy in infants born very preterm

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria A.A. Beunders ◽  
Jorine A. Roelants ◽  
Jessie M. Hulst ◽  
Dimitris Rizopoulos ◽  
Anita C.S. Hokken‐Koelega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Very Preterm ◽  
Early Weight Gain

scholarly journals Protocol for iGrow (Infant Growth and Development Study): biopsychosocial predictors of childhood obesity risk at 2 years

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther M. Leerkes ◽  
Cheryl Buehler ◽  
Susan D. Calkins ◽  
Lenka H. Shriver ◽  
Laurie Wideman
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Maternal Sensitivity ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Infant Growth ◽  
Obesity Risk ◽  
Development Study ◽  
Early Weight Gain ◽  
Infant Weight Gain

Abstract Background Childhood obesity remains a significant public health problem. To date, most research on the causes and correlates of obesity has focused on a small number of direct predictors of obesity rather than testing complex models that address the multifactorial nature of the origins of obesity in early development. We describe the rationale and methods of iGrow (Infant Growth and Development Study) which will test multiple pathways by which (a) prenatal maternal psychobiological risk predicts infant weight gain over the first 6 months of life, and (b) this early weight gain confers risk for obesity at age 2. Infant hormonal and psychobiological risk are proposed mediators from prenatal risk to early weight gain, though these are moderated by early maternal sensitivity and obesogenic feeding practices. In addition, higher maternal sensitivity and lower obesogenic feeding practices are proposed predictors of adaptive child self-regulation in the second year of life, and all three are proposed to buffer/reduce the association between high early infant weight gain and obesity risk at age 2. Methods iGrow is a prospective, longitudinal community-based study of 300 diverse mothers and infants to be followed across 5 data waves from pregnancy until children are age 2. Key measures include (a) maternal reports of demographics, stress, well-being, feeding practices and child characteristics and health; (b) direct observation of maternal and infant behavior during feeding, play, and distress-eliciting tasks during which infant heart rate is recorded to derive measures of vagal withdrawal; (c) anthropometric measures of mothers and infants; and (d) assays of maternal prenatal blood and infant saliva and urine. A host of demographic and other potential confounds will be considered as potential covariates in structural equation models that include tests of mediation and moderation. Efforts to mitigate the deleterious effects of COVID-19 on study success are detailed. Discussion This study has the potential to inform (1) basic science about early life processes casually related to childhood obesity and (2) development of targeted intervention and prevention approaches that consider mother, infant, and family risks and resources.

scholarly journals Cause-specific neonatal mortality in a neonatal care unit in Northern Tanzania: a registry based cohort study

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blandina Theophil Mmbaga ◽  
Rolv Terje Lie ◽  
Raimos Olomi ◽  
Michael Johnson Mahande ◽  
Gunnar Kvåle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Neonatal Mortality ◽  
Neonatal Care ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Neonatal Care Unit

Improving safety of preparation and administration of medicines and enteral nutrition in a neonatal care unit: Global risk analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Author(s):  
K. Zribi ◽  
C.L. Seydoux ◽  
Y. Coatantiec ◽  
V. Chenet ◽  
F. Karnycheff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Enteral Nutrition ◽  
Neonatal Care ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Neonatal Care Unit

The lambing period of mountain sheep: synthesis, hypotheses, and tests

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred L. Bunnell
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Thermal Stress ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Extreme Environments ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Central Tendency ◽  
Seasonal Growth ◽  
Early Weight Gain ◽  
Definition Of

Data on lambing periods from 30 populations of North American mountain sheep are reviewed. Among all populations lambing begins later and duration is shorter at more northern altitudes (p < 0.00006). Correlations are enhanced (p < 0.00003) when latitude is replaced by a phenological index incorporating altitude. Termination of lambing is not correlated with latitude or with phenological index. Two broad patterns are evident. Populations feeding on vegetation of less predictable growth patterns ("desert type") have lengthy lambing seasons; populations feeding on vegetation exhibiting more predictable growth patterns ("alpine type") have shorter lambing seasons, typically two oestrous cycles in length. Definition of "types" by latitude or sheep taxonomy reveals significant differences in lambing periods, but correlations are enhanced when "types" are defined on the basis of habitat.Among taxa, birth weights are correlated with female body weight (rs = 0.87). Birth weights are heavier in extreme environments, seasonal growth patterns are expressed better in the alpine type, and early weight gain is most rapid in the northernmost subspecies. All populations show a strong central tendency with regard to peak lambing (17 May ± 6.8 days). Departures from that tendency respond more to predictability of vegetation than to thermal stress or predation pressure.

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