- ►ucla.edu [PDF] TP Dominguez, C Dunkel-Schetter, LM Glynn … - Health Psychology, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org African Americans are twice as likely as non-Hispanic Whites, the most common
referent group, to die before their first birthday (Mathews, Menacker, &
MacDorman, 2004). In this country, low birth weight (LBW; <2,500 g) and ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
AM Grjibovski, JR Harris, P Magnus - Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2005 - Aus Acad Press Population-based twin data were used to test (a) whether lower birthweight
confers a greater risk of adult health disorders, and (b) whether within-pair
birthweight differences in twins explain discordance for health outcomes. ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
E Ojaimi, D Robaei, E Rochtchina, KA Rose, … - American journal of ophthalmology, 2005 - Elsevier After adjusting for cluster, age, and gender, children with birth weight <2500 g
had mean axial length 22.46 mm (95% confidence interval [CI], 22.20–22.72) and
mean corneal radius 7.70 mm (CI 7.61–7.79). This compared with axial ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 11 versions
- ►ajcn.org AR Rudnicka, CG Owen, M Richards, MEJ … - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2008 - Am Soc Nutrition 2 Supported by grant no. G0000934 from the Medical Research Council (ARR) and
grant no. PG/04/072 from the British Heart Foundation (CGO). ... Background: It
has been suggested that early life factors, including breastfeeding and ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
DTH Tan - Singapore medical journal, 2004 - sma.org.sg Myopia, or shortsightedness, is an optical aberration of the eye whereby objects
at a distance are not focused onto the retina, but are brought to a focus in
front of the retina, resulting in a blurred image. Individuals with myopia ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 2 versions
C Samarawickrama, SC Huynh, G Liew, G … - Ophthalmology, 2009 - Elsevier Of 2353 children examined, 2134 (90.7%) had OCT scans (Zeiss Stratus OCT, Carl
Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA) and are included in this study. The “fast” optic
disc scan protocol was used. Birth weight, birth length, and head ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 2 versions
YM Hur, Y Zheng, W Huang, X Ding, M He - Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2009 - Aus Acad Press Studies have reported that refractive errors are associated with premature
births. As twins have higher prevalence of prematurity than singletons, it is
important to assess similarity of the prevalence of refractive errors in ... Related articles - All 4 versions
M Dirani, FMA Islam, PN Baird - Ophthalmic Res, 2009 - content.karger.com Objective: It was the aim of this study to assess the role of birth weight in
the development of myopia using a large cohort of Caucasian monozygotic (MZ) and
dizygotic (DZ) twins that took part in the Genes in Myopia (GEM) twin ... Related articles - All 3 versions