low birth weight
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflow,birthandweight
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low
adjective
uk/ləʊ/us/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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birth
noun
uk/bɜːθ/us/bɝːθ/
the time when a baby or young animal comes out of its ...
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weight
noun
uk/weɪt/us/weɪt/
the amount that something or ...
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(Definition oflow,birthandweightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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All piglets hadlowbirthweights.
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What factors contribute tolowbirthweight?
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Adrenal steroidogenesis in verylowbirthweight preterm infants.
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These pregnancies are associated withlowbirthweight.
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Indeed, smoking is a causative factor forlowbirthweight.
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What are the health effects oflowbirthweight?
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Estimates oflowbirthweight based on maternal assessments of birth size as very small should be recognized as underestimates of the actual prevalence oflowbirthweight.
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The association betweenlowbirthweight and both raised blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular disease suggested that the metabolic syndrome was a further consequence oflowbirthweight.
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Relations between infant neurobehavioral performance and cognitive outcome in verylowbirthweight preterm infants.
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What is the definition oflowbirthweight, preterm birth, and small for gestational age?
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Low and verylowbirthweight in infants conceived with use of assisted reproductive technology.
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In only a small fraction canlowbirthweight be attributed to bad medical care.
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This disease occurs as a direct consequence of pregnancy and is associated withlowbirthweight.
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Those without reported birth weights are more likely to belowbirthweight.
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Massage for promoting growth and development of preterm and/orlowbirth-weight infants.
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Lowbirthweight predicts elevated plasma cortisol concentrations in adults from 3 populations.
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Maternal psychological distress and parenting stress after the birth of a verylowbirthweight infant.
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Adolescent pregnancy heightens the risk oflowbirth-weight and the difficulty of breaking this cycle.
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This measure is not a precise estimate of the incidence oflowbirthweight.
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Maternal report of very small birth size is not a sensitive indicator oflowbirthweight.
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Lowbirthweight, pre-operative neurologic abnormalities and low socioeconomic status impacted negatively on later outcome.
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The singleton preterm birth rate andlowbirthweight rate were 14.7% and 9.3%, respectively.
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