"Birth Weight" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual at BIRTH. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms.
| Descriptor ID |
D001724
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.144.186 E01.370.600.115.100.160.120.186 E05.041.124.160.750.149 G07.100.100.160.120.186 G07.345.249.314.120.186
|
| Concept/Terms |
Birth Weight- Birth Weight
- Birth Weights
- Weight, Birth
- Weights, Birth
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Birth Weight".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Birth Weight".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Birth Weight" by people in this website by year, and whether "Birth Weight" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Birth Weight" by people in Profiles.
-
Treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) outside International Classification of ROP (ICROP) guidelines. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2020 Jun; 258(6):1205-1210.
-
A Potential Role for the NOD1 Variant (rs6958571) in Gram-Positive Blood Stream Infection in ELBW Infants. Neonatology. 2017; 112(4):354-358.
-
Evidence of Early Pulmonary Hypertension Is Associated with Increased Mortality in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. Am J Perinatol. 2017 07; 34(8):801-807.
-
Influence of own mother's milk on bronchopulmonary dysplasia and costs. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2017 May; 102(3):F256-F261.
-
Cost savings of human milk as a strategy to reduce the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants. Neonatology. 2015; 107(4):271-6.
-
Clinical inquiries: Which factors increase the risk of an infant becoming an overweight child? J Fam Pract. 2009 Jul; 58(7):383-4.
-
Test weighing for term and premature infants is an accurate procedure. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2007 Mar; 92(2):F155-6.
-
Fetal growth curves: does classification of weight-for-gestational age predict risk of hypoglycemia in the term newborn? J Midwifery Womens Health. 2006 Jan-Feb; 51(1):39-44.
-
Influence of increased survival in very low birth weight, low birth weight, and normal birth weight infants on the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome in the United States: 1985-1991. J Pediatr. 1998 Jul; 133(1):73-8.
-
Intra- and interexaminer reliability of anthropometric measurements of term infants. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 1997 May; 24(5):497-505.