The Association Between Maternal Short Stature and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Admission: A Longitudinal Study in Sabah
Ehab Helmy, Helen Benedict Lesimbang, M Tanveer Hossain Parash, Soon Ruey, Nurhidayah Binti Kamarudin, Ong Teck Siong, Teoh Jie Sheng, Khairul Sabrin Bin Ahmad, Syaza Nadia Binti Saman, Kueh Bing Ling · 2023
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Ehab Helmy and co-authors report a 2023 study in Sabah, Malaysia, on mothers' height and newborn care. More newborns need intensive care, which strains families and hospitals. The team asks whether a mother's short stature raises that need directly. Records cover 254 Malaysian women with single pregnancies at one women's and children's hospital. Births ran from 2018 to 2022 and all passed thirty-seven weeks. Cases with major disorders, smoking, or birth defects were excluded.
Low birth weight appeared in about fifteen percent of the babies. The team links maternal height, low birth weight, and intensive care admission in one chain. If height flags risk early, clinics can watch those pregnancies more closely. Height is free to measure at the first visit. That makes it a fair screening clue in low-resource wards. The single-center design limits reach, but the question is practical for similar hospitals.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ehab Helmy, Helen Benedict Lesimbang, M Tanveer Hossain Parash, Soon Ruey, Nurhidayah Binti Kamarudin, Ong Teck Siong, Teoh Jie Sheng, Khairul Sabrin Bin Ahmad, Syaza Nadia Binti Saman, Kueh Bing Ling |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |