Open AccessOn Relationship Between Maternal Health and Intrauterine Growth of the Foetus
Author(s) -
Hedberg E.,
Holmdahl K.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016347009157241
Subject(s) - medicine , obstetrics , growth retardation , birth weight , low birth weight , fetus , pregnancy , pediatrics , prospective cohort study , fetal growth , surgery , genetics , biology
. The relationship between maternal health and intrauterine growth of the foetus was studied. A prospective method of study was used and the series included 11 417 pregnant women. All infants of low birth weight and a subgroup of growth retarded infants were compared with a control group of normal weight infants. It became evident that the characteristics and complications of pregnancies resulting in infants of low birth weight differed from those of a control series. It was also apparent that pregnancies resulting in growth retarded infants differed from controls in other respects than those resulting in premature infants as a whole. In studying the causes of prematurity and in the clinical handling of the premature infants it is of utmost importance to be aware of the different categories of infants of low birth weight.