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A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana
BACKGROUND: Birth weight is a major determinant of infant morbidity and mortality. Fetal undernourishment means an increased risk of dying during a baby’s early months and years. Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health pol...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4823686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27057340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-015-0023-4 |
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author | Atuahene, Margaret Mensah, David Adjuik, Martin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Birth weight is a major determinant of infant morbidity and mortality. Fetal undernourishment means an increased risk of dying during a baby’s early months and years. Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health policy. The issues have not been comprehensively evaluated in part due to lack of or limited empirical data. To this end, this study is aimed to evaluate the effects of maternal determinants on the birth weights of neonates in two major hospitals. RESULTS: Low birth weight neonates were significantly (p < 0.001) associated with low gestation at birth (34.8 ± 3.8) while mothers of low birth weight neonates had significantly (p = 0.034) lower body mass index (27.3 ± 5.4) than their normal birth weight counterparts (29.0 ± 6.3). Gestation at birth (p < 0.001), diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.008) was the only significant determinant of birth weight. CONCLUSION: An increase in gestation at birth by 1 week results in over twice more likelihood of a normal birth weight while a rise in diastolic blood pressure is less likely to give rise to a normal birth weight neonate. |
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spelling | pubmed-48236862016-04-07 A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana Atuahene, Margaret Mensah, David Adjuik, Martin Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol Research Article BACKGROUND: Birth weight is a major determinant of infant morbidity and mortality. Fetal undernourishment means an increased risk of dying during a baby’s early months and years. Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health policy. The issues have not been comprehensively evaluated in part due to lack of or limited empirical data. To this end, this study is aimed to evaluate the effects of maternal determinants on the birth weights of neonates in two major hospitals. RESULTS: Low birth weight neonates were significantly (p < 0.001) associated with low gestation at birth (34.8 ± 3.8) while mothers of low birth weight neonates had significantly (p = 0.034) lower body mass index (27.3 ± 5.4) than their normal birth weight counterparts (29.0 ± 6.3). Gestation at birth (p < 0.001), diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.008) was the only significant determinant of birth weight. CONCLUSION: An increase in gestation at birth by 1 week results in over twice more likelihood of a normal birth weight while a rise in diastolic blood pressure is less likely to give rise to a normal birth weight neonate. BioMed Central 2015-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4823686/ /pubmed/27057340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-015-0023-4 Text en © Atuahene et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Atuahene, Margaret Mensah, David Adjuik, Martin A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana |
title | A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana |
title_full | A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana |
title_fullStr | A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana |
title_short | A cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the Greater Accra region of Ghana |
title_sort | cross-sectional study of determinants of birth weight of neonates in the greater accra region of ghana |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4823686/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27057340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-015-0023-4 |
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