low-birth-weight baby

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low-birth-weight baby - an infant born weighing less than 5.5 pounds (2500 grams) regardless of gestational age; "a low-birth-weight infant is at risk for developing lack of oxygen during labor"

low-birth-weight infant

neonate, newborn, newborn baby, newborn infant - a baby from birth to four weeks

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Findings from the first set of multivariate analyses revealed that black, Asian and Hispanic women were significantly more likely than white women to have a low-birth-weight baby (odds ratios, 2.

Low-birth-weight risk and mother's nativity status: associations vary ... by Hollander, D. / Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

reflecting differences in ethnic minority mix), with a stronger association of THM exposure with one of these pathways to becoming a low-birth-weight baby, but not the other.

Relation of trihalomethane concentrations in public water supplies to ... by Elliott, Paul / Environmental Health Perspectives

Getting dental X rays while pregnant might increase a woman's risk of giving birth to a low-birth-weight baby, a new study suggests.

Unsettling association: dental X rays linked to low-birth-weight ... by Seppa, N. / Science News

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