Objective: Identify the effect of term gestational age on birth weight and its evolution in the first year of the child's life. Method: Single cohort, concurrent, with prospective follow-up of one year, performed in ...

In order to prove the zinc behaviour in prematurity and in intrauterine malnutrition we have measured this element in mother's serum soon after parturition and from cord blood of their infants—appropriate and low-birth ...

Problem: Placental apoptosis-associated protein imbalance might contribute to the pathogenesis of pre- and post-term birth. Therefore, we evaluated the expression and distribution of pro-apoptotic (Bax) and anti-apoptotic ...

Purpose: Compare maxillary labial frenum and lingual frenum topography, the ridges relationship and oral inclusion cysts occurrence between pre-term (PT) and full-term newborns (FT). Methods: This cross-sectional and ...

BACKGROUND: Preterm birth has been associated with increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease later in adulthood, attributed to cardiovascular and metabolic alterations in early life. However, there is ...