L McCowan

..Previous studies have indicated an ethnic disparity in the rate of stillbirths. This study aimed to determine whether maternal ethnicity is independently associated with late stillbirth in New Zealand...

..Underweight was predicted by early detection of SGA antenatally. Most SGA babies who remained small at 6 months failed to show catch up growth after birth...

..To compare pregnancy outcomes between women who stopped smoking in early pregnancy and those who either did not smoke in pregnancy or continued to smoke...

..Stillbirth affects almost 1% of pregnant women in the Western world but is still not a research priority...

..Future studies need to investigate risk factors for babies SGA by customised centiles as these babies have greater morbidity and mortality than babies defined as SGA by population centiles...

..Birthweight centiles developed predominantly from babies of European ethnicity may therefore not be appropriate to classify babies from other ethnic groups...

..However, this criterion includes constitutional variation due to maternal height, weight, ethnic group and parity. Aims: To develop customised birthweight centiles for a New Zealand population...

..Small for gestational age (SGA) babies are more common in women with antiphospholipid antibodies but data are limited about the prevalence of antiphospholipid antibodies in women who have delivered SGA babies...

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..In conclusion, we report a novel relationship between paternal obesity/central adiposity and birth of an SGA infant, which appears to be independent of maternal factors associated with fetal growth restriction...

..Use of customized centiles is likely to detect more babies at risk of perinatal morbidity and mortality than would be detected by population centiles...

..Our findings are remarkably similar to recently identified proteins complexed to high-density lipoprotein and linked to cardiovascular disease...

..To describe changes in mean uterine artery resistance index and bilateral notches between 20 and 24 weeks of gestation in healthy nulliparous women and to relate these changes to pregnancy outcome...

..In high-income countries, stillbirth rates have been static in recent decades. Unexplained stillbirths account for up to 50% of these deaths...

..Our objective was to compare the proportion of infants classified as SGA by customized and population birthweight centiles at different gestational ages at delivery...

..This work suggests that endothelial cells can phagocytose deported trophoblasts and that the mechanism of trophoblast death (apoptotic or necrotic) could have major effects on the maternal vascular response to shed trophoblasts...

..There are few studies of risk factors for neonatal death in Australia or New Zealand...

..Nondippers were common and nondipper status frequently changed during pregnancy...

..Metformin is a logical treatment for women with gestational diabetes mellitus, but randomized trials to assess the efficacy and safety of its use for this condition are lacking...

..Further studies are required to determine whether thrombophilias are increased in small-for-gestational-age babies with abnormal umbilical Doppler study results...

..Customised birthweight centiles identify small-for-gestational-age (SGA) babies at increased risk of morbidity more accurately than population centiles, but they have not been validated in obese populations...

..58-40.7). We conclude that compared to uncomplicated pregnancies, short duration of sexual relationship is more common in women who develop preeclampsia and women with abnormal uterine artery Doppler waveforms who deliver an SGA baby...

..4, 95% CI 1.2-4.8) and cord arterial base deficit (OR 1.2, 95% CI 1.01-1.4). CONCLUSION: Few of the perinatal variables previously reported are predictive of early childhood outcome in this modern cohort of SGA infants...