Epidemiology and burden of malaria in pregnancy

M Desai, FO Ter Kuile, F Nosten… - The Lancet infectious …, 2007 - thelancet.com
We reviewed evidence of the clinical implications and burden of malaria in pregnancy. Most
studies come from sub-Saharan Africa, where approximately 25 million pregnant women are …

Placental responses to changes in the maternal environment determine fetal growth

KG Dimasuay, P Boeuf, TL Powell… - Frontiers in physiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Placental responses to maternal perturbations are complex and remain poorly understood.
Altered maternal environment during pregnancy such as hypoxia, stress, obesity, diabetes …

[图书][B] World malaria report 2023

World Health Organization - 2023 - books.google.com
Page 1 World malaria וייוייו report 2023 wwwwww World Health Organization Page 2 World
malaria report 2023 ISBN 978-92-4-008617-3 (electronic version) ISBN 978-92-4-008618-0 …

Anaemia in pregnancy: prevalence, risk factors, and adverse perinatal outcomes in Northern Tanzania

G Stephen, M Mgongo, T Hussein Hashim, J Katanga… - Anemia, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Objective. Anaemia in pregnancy is a public health problem in developing
countries. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, risk factors, and adverse perinatal …

Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept

JCK Wells, RM Nesse, R Sear, RA Johnstone… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
The emerging discipline of evolutionary medicine is breaking new ground in understanding
why people become ill. However, the value of evolutionary analyses of human physiology …

Risk factors for small for gestational age infants

L McCowan, RP Horgan - Best practice & research clinical obstetrics & …, 2009 - Elsevier
There are many established risk factors for babies who are small for gestational age (SGA)
by population birth weight centiles (usually defined as< 10th centile). The confirmed …

An overview of malaria in pregnancy

M Bauserman, AL Conroy, K North, J Patterson… - Seminars in …, 2019 - Elsevier
One hundred twenty-five million pregnant women are at risk for contracting malaria, a
preventable cause of maternal and infant morbidity and death. Malaria parasites contribute …

Predictors of low birth weight and preterm birth in rural Uganda: Findings from a birth cohort study

J Bater, JM Lauer, S Ghosh, P Webb, E Agaba… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Approximately 20.5 million infants were born weighing< 2500 g (defined as low
birthweight or LBW) in 2015, primarily in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Infants …

Life history transitions at the origins of agriculture: a model for understanding how niche construction impacts human growth, demography and health

JCK Wells, JT Stock - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over recent millennia, human populations have regularly reconstructed their subsistence
niches, changing both how they obtain food and the conditions in which they live. For …

Iron deficiency anemia: focus on infectious diseases in lesser developed countries

JG Shaw, JF Friedman - Anemia, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Iron deficiency anemia is thought to affect the health of more than one billion people
worldwide, with the greatest burden of disease experienced in lesser developed countries …