1. Does emigration by itself improve birth weight? Study in European newborns of Indo-Pakistan origin
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José Morales-Roselló, Silvia Buongiorno, Gabriela Loscalzo, Elisa Scarinci, Tiran Dias, Paolo Rosati, Antonio Lanzone, and Alfredo Perales Marín
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Fetal growth ,Migration ,Maternal nutrition ,Birth weight ,Ethnicity ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 ,Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration ,JV1-9480 - Abstract
Objective: Our aim was to evaluate the effect of emigration on fetal birth weight (BW) in a group of pregnant women coming from the Indian subcontinent. Methods: This was a retrospective study in a mixed population of pregnant women from the Indian subcontinent that either moved to Europe or stayed in their original countries. The influence of emigration along with several pregnancy characteristics: GA at delivery, fetal gender, maternal age, height, weight, body mass index (BMI) and parity on BW was evaluated by means of multivariable linear regression analysis. Results: According to European standards, babies born to Indo-Pakistan emigrants and babies born to women staying in the Indian subcontinent were similarly small (BW centile 30± 29 and 30.1 ± 28, p
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- 2023
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