Mortality during childhood
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This study investigated whether large fluctuations in food availability during grandparents' early development influenced grandchildren's cardiovascular mortality. We reported earlier that changes in availability of food - from good to poor or from poor to good - during intrauterine development was followed by a double risk of sudden death as an adult, and that mortality rate can be associated with ancestors childhood availability of food.
6p vinarcissa 21-03-2023 3 1 Download
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With improvements in treatment of cancer, more men of fertile age are survivors of cancer. This study evaluates trends in birth rates among male cancer survivors and mortality rates of their offspring.
12p vinaypyidaw2711 26-08-2020 11 3 Download
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Stunting continues to be a major public health problem in developing countries. It is one of the most important risk factors for morbidity and mortality during childhood. In Palestine, it is another health problem, which adds to the catastrophic issues in the region.
7p vidr2711 19-02-2020 13 1 Download
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most frequently identified pathogen in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection. Fatal cases have mainly been reported during the first 6 months of life or in the presence of comorbidity.
8p vivalletta2711 11-01-2020 13 1 Download
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In 2012, WHO published the Application of ICD-10 to deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium: ICD Maternal Mortality (ICD-MM), to guide countries to reduce errors in coding maternal deaths and to improve the attribution of cause of maternal death (10). The ICD-MM is to be used together with the three ICD-10 volumes. For example, the ICD-MM clarifies that the coding of maternal deaths among HIV-positive women may be due to: Obstetric causes: such as haemorrhage or hypertensive disorders in pregnancy – these should be identified as direct maternal deaths.
40p nhamnhiqa 01-03-2013 57 2 Download
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Specific micronutrient deficiencies may affect maternal and foetal health. Iodine deficiency during pregnancy may cause foetal brain damage and mental retardation in infants. Vitamin A deficiency increases the risk in pregnant women of infection and anaemia, may cause blindness during pregnancy and early lactation, and has been associated to an elevated risk of HIV mother-to-child transmission. Folate deficiency may cause severe foetal neural tube defects like anencephaly and spina bifida.
10p connicquy 20-12-2012 62 10 Download
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Besides the previously discussed papers about impacts of shocks at birth, our results are related to research on gender bias during early childhood. Much of the literature finds evidence favoring boys over girls (see Rose (1999) for evidence from India that gender bias in infant mortality drops significantly when districts experience higher rainfall or Dercon and Krishnan (2000) for evidence from Ethiopia that poor households are unable to smooth their consumption, with women bearing the brunt of adverse shocks).
52p can_thai 12-12-2012 59 2 Download