Using ultrasound to measure blood flow in the placenta ... weight, researchers report. As the Dutch investigators explained, about 10% of fetuses are determined to be "small for gestational age ...

"Those babies who are at the extremes are considered to be small or large for gestational age," Urquia said. Birth weight charts are important because babies who are truly "small for gestational ...

This study details the relationship between gestational age at birth and school grades at age 16 across the full range of pregnancy duration (22 to 45 completed weeks), by weight-for-gestational ...

placenta weight, and birthweight were also evaluated. Results: One hundred twenty nine women were randomized at a mean gestational age of 12.4 ± 0.6 weeks with a mean UtA PI of 1.4 ± 0.4 MoM.

placental abruption (the premature separation of the placenta), stillbirth (fetal death at >28 weeks) and small for gestational age babies (SGA). Of the total study population (1,155,033 ...

More than 30,000 pregnancies at 19–23 weeks' gestation were screened with PIGF at King's College Hospital and Medway Maritime Hospital. From that dataset, 33% of pregnancies had a clinical risk ...

The study, "Placental IGFBP1 levels during early pregnancy and the risk of insulin resistance and gestational diabetes," appears in the April 16, 2024 edition of Nature Medicine. Gestational ...