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Birth Weight

Known as: babies birth weight, birthweight, infant birthweight 
The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual at BIRTH. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms.
National Institutes of Health

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BirthFetal Health and DevelopmentFetal MacrosomiaFetal Weight

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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Protein requirements of low birthweight, very low birthweight, and small for gestational age infants
A definition of the protein requirement of any population must include consideration of the purposes for which the requirement is… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Preventing preterm birth.
Premature or preterm delivery of otherwise normal babies is a problem throughout the world, in both developed and developing… 
1988
1988
Cerebral palsy: changing patterns of birthweight and gestational age (1976/81).
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
School performance of children with birth weights of 1,000 g or less.
Twenty-five of the 45 long-term survivors with birth weights of 1,000 g or less who were cared for in the University of… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Textbook of paediatric nutrition.
Nutrition in growth and development - maternal and fetal nutrition, lactation and infant feeding, weaning and early childhood… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Selection for ovulation rate in swine: correlated response in litter size and weight.
Nine generations of direct selection for ovulation rate (OR) were evaluated to determine the magnitude of the correlated response… 
Review
1978
Review
1978
The Large Fetus: Management and Outcome
In a 4-year retrospective review of 801 pregnancies that resulted in the delivery of an infant weighing 4100 g (9 lb) or more… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Early growth and development in low-birthweight infants following treatment in an intensive care nursery.
Sixty-seven appropriate-for-date infants with gestations less than 33 weeks were followed for 12 months after their term dates… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Fetal growth. Liveborn birth weights for gestational age of white middle class infants.
Fetal growth in weight is presented on 40,000 single, newborn infants between 27 and 44 weeks9 gestational age. They were… 
1964
1964
The Plasma Tyrosine Levels of Premature Babies
There is good evidence that the newborn baby metabolizes tyrosine in a different way from the older child adult. 
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