Estimating avoidable burden of stillbirth attributable to greenness improvement in Iran by Yang Yuan, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Yaqi Wang, Jixing Yang, Yunquan Zhang, Fang Shi

“…Stillbirth was defined as the birth of babies with no signs of life at ≥22 weeks of gestation. Multivariable-adjusted logistic regression models were employed to investigate greenness-stillbirth associations. …”
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A maChine and deep Learning Approach to predict pulmoNary hyperteNsIon in newbornS with congenital diaphragmatic Hernia (CLANNISH): Protocol for a retrospective study. by Ilaria Amodeo, Giorgio De Nunzio, Genny Raffaeli, Irene Borzani, Alice Griggio, Luana Conte, Francesco Macchini, Valentina Condò, Nicola Persico, Isabella Fabietti, Stefano Ghirardello, Maria Pierro, Benedetta Tafuri, Giuseppe Como, Donato Cascio, Mariarosa Colnaghi, Fabio Mosca, Giacomo Cavallaro

“…<h4>Methods and analytics</h4>Patients with isolated CDH from singleton pregnancies will be enrolled, whose prenatal checks were performed at the Fetal Surgery Unit of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (Milan, Italy) from the 30th week of gestation. A retrospective data collection of clinical and radiological variables from newborns' and mothers' clinical records will be performed for eligible patients born between 01/01/2012 and 31/12/2020. …”
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Timing, risk factors, and causes of foetal and preweaning lamb mortality in lowland production systems involving a range of ewe genotypes by D. Shiels, J.F. Mee, J.P. Hanrahan, C.M. Dwyer, S. Fagan, T.W.J. Keady

“…Data were collected from all foetuses and lambs that died (between ∼120 days gestation and weaning at 14 weeks of age); 221 cases in 2017 and 241 cases in 2018. …”
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Multicentre, randomised controlled trial to investigate the effects of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates (Petal) by Eleri Adams, Daniel Crankshaw, Ria Evans Fry, Rebeccah Slater, Caroline Hartley, Maria M Cobo, Fiona Moultrie, Annalisa G V Hauck, Vaneesha Monk, Shellie Robinson, Marianne van der Vaart, Luke Baxter, Ravi Poorun, Aomesh Bhatt

“…A total of 112 neonates born at 35 weeks’ gestation or more requiring a blood test in the first week of life will be recruited and randomised to receive parental stroking either preprocedure or postprocedure. …”
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Adrenal hemorrhage in neonates: Incidence, perinatal characteristics and follow-up outcomes by Tek-Jū Tân, Yi-Li Hung, Chung-Min Shen, Wu-Shiun Hsieh

“…Results: 7217 neonates had received abdominal ultrasonogram within seven days-of-life and 29 of them (0.4%) were diagnosed with NAH. Mean gestation age was 38 ± 1.2 weeks and mean birth weight was 3406 ± 403 g. …”
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Impact of Prenatal Stress on Neuroendocrine Programming by Odile Viltart, Christel C. A. Vanbesien-Mailliot

“…Early stressful events during gestation might indeed shape internal parameters of the developing organisms in order to adapt the progeny to its everyday environment and thus contribute to an increased reproductive success, or fitness, of the species. …”
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Determination of oral feeding skills in late preterm, early term, and full-term infants using the neonatal oral feeding monitor (NeoSAFE) by Ayse Ecevit, Balkar Erdogan, Deniz Anuk Ince, Meltem Aksu, Sezin Unal, Özden Turan, Ahmet Saracoglu, Aylin Tarcan

“…We planned to examine the relationship of oral feeding parameters according to the gestational age. We also investigated whether the coordination of swallowing and respiration changes with respect to gestational age in newborn infants. …”
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Effect of Dietary Grape Pomace and Seed on Ewe Milk and Meat Quality of Their Suckling Lambs by V. C. Resconi, M. Pascual-Alonso, L. Aguayo-Ulloa, G. C. Miranda-de la Lama, S. Alierta, M. M. Campo, J. L. Olleta, M. Villarroel, G. A. María

“…Forty-two ewes were fed during the second half of gestation and lactation one out of three treatments: a control diet based on a commercial concentrate and two concentrates supplemented with either 10% grape pomace or 5% grape seed. …”
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Self-reported sleep in late pregnancy in relation to birth size and fetal distress: the E Moe, Māmā prospective cohort study by Laura D Howe, Sarah-Jane Paine, T Leigh Signal, Bronwyn Sweeney, Monique Priston, Diane Muller, Kathy Lee, Mark Huthwaite, Philippa Gander

“…Associations between each sleep variable and small or large for gestational age (SGA/LGA) using customised birthweight centile or fetal distress were estimated using multinomial/logistic regression, controlling for potential confounders. …”
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Genetic parameters and parental and early-life effects of boar semen traits by Pedro Sá, Rodrigo M. Godinho, Marta Gòdia, Claudia A. Sevillano, Barbara Harlizius, Ole Madsen, Henk Bovenhuis

“…Early-life effects included the dam’s parity, ages of the dam and sire, gestation length, litter size, litter sex ratio, number of piglets born alive, number of litter mates at weaning, rearing length, and weight gain. …”
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Fixed timed artificial insemination in buffalo heifers with fresh and frozen-thawed semen in Argentina by José Luis Konrad, Alexis Bandeo, Natalia Vallejos, Pablo Ponce, Jesús Alfredo Berdugo, Pablo Maldonado-Vargas

“…The data obtained were recorded in Excel spread-sheets. A comparison of gestation results was performed using the Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test. …”
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Fetal and neonatal cardiac tumor diagnosed as Tuberous Sclerosis associated rhabdomyomas resulting from novel pathogenic missense variant detected in TSC2 gene: A case report by Aya Kawasaki, MD, Hidefumi Tonoki, MD, PhD, Osamu Sasaki, MD, PhD, Yoko Matsushita, MD, PhD, Michiko Watari, MD, PhD, Nobuhiro Takahashi, MD, Satoko Fujieda, MD

“…Multiple fetal cardiac tumors were detected on ultrasonography at 24 weeks, gestation with no other manifestation. Neither epilepsy nor mental retardation was seen after birth. …”
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Undernutrition disrupts jejunal and ileal microbiota and epithelial tissue homeostasis in a pregnant sheep model by Weibin Wu, Muhammad Faheem Akhtar, Jiahong Geng, Huizhen Lu, Muhammad Ajwad Rahim, Jianbo Cheng, Xiaoling Ding, Shengyong Mao, Yanfeng Xue

“…This study aimed to unravel how undernutrition reshapes the microbial composition and the homeostasis of epithelium in the jejunum and ileum. Sixteen late-gestation Hu-sheep were randomly assigned to the control group (n = 8, 100% ad libitum feeding levels) or the undernutrition group (n = 8, which received 30% ad libitum feeding levels). …”
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Magnitude and Risk of Dying among Low Birth Weight Neonates in Rural Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Akine Eshete, Abebe Alemu, Taddes Alemu Zerfu

“…Similarly, neonates born with very low (<2000gm) birth weight and born prematurely (before 37 weeks of gestation) carried a higher (HR= 1.90 and 1.47; 95 % CI: 1.22 - 2.96 and 1.07-2.28) risk of death. …”
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Maternal and neonatal outcomes of Group B Streptococcus colonization: a retrospective study by Guixiu Jin, Lanhua Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Junling Fei, Zhenling Zhu, Ziyan Jiang, Min Liu

“…Pregnant women between 35 and 37 weeks of gestation had GBS screening using real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). …”
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Externally validated nomogram for predicting short-term pregnancy outcome of singleton pregnancies with fetal growth restriction (FGR) by Yang Li, Xiaohong Zhang, Junshu Xie, Fufen Yin, Mingrui Jin, Yujing Li, Xiuju Yin

“…Furthermore, the calibrations of the nomograms predicting the 28th and 34th TOP-free gestation week strongly corresponded to the actual survival outcome.Conclusion This prediction model may help clinicians in decision-making for singleton pregnancies with FGR, especially for patients with a single abnormal umbilical arterial flow or fetal anomaly, without induced labour indications for these abnormalities.…”
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Pulmonary aspiration during pregnancy or immediately postpartum in the UK: A population-based case-control study [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Ruth Tunn, Marian Knight, Alison Gooda, Nuala Lucas

“…Cases were significantly less likely than controls to be multiparous (unadjusted odds ratio [uOR] 0.255, 95% CI 0.069-0.946), and significantly more likely to undergo caesarean section (uOR 24.89, 95% CI 3.18-194.85) and to receive general anaesthetic for caesarean section (p<0.001). Gestation was significantly shorter in cases than controls (uOR 0.782, 95% CI 0.702-0.870). …”
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Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) of non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) for singleton and twin pregnancies in the first trimester by Huanyun Li, Shaojun Li, Zhenhua Zhao, Lingrong Kong, Xinyu Fu, Jingqi Zhu, Jun Feng, Weiqin Tang, Di Wu, Xiangdong Kong

“…Most (13/15) of pregnant women were diagnosed in the first trimester and the earliest gestation week was the 7th week. The twin pregnancy was a dichorionic diamniotic twin (DCDA). …”
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Pengaruh Pemijatan Perineum pada Primigravida terhadap Kejadian Ruptur Perineum saat Persalinan di Bidan Praktek Mandiri di Kota Bengkulu Tahun 2014 by Wewet Savitri, Ermawati ., Elda Yusefni

“…The study was conducted in independent practice of midwifery) in Bengkulu city including subject of 28 primigravida with 36 weeks of gestation consisting of 14 intervention group and 14 control group. …”
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Association between the atherogenic index of plasma and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Korean pregnant women: secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study by Rong Shuai, Yuxing He, Dongqian Yang, Yingying Zhang, Li Zhang

“…BackgroundRecent studies have shown an association between atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), but the association in a population of pregnant women remains unclear.ObjectivesOur study aimed to examine the association between AIP and NAFLD in pregnant Korean women.MethodsOur study used publicly available data from Korea, which recruited singleton pregnant women between November 2014 and September 2016 who were at 10–14 weeks of gestation. The presence of NAFLD was diagnosed by liver ultrasound. …”
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