“The next-generation”: Long-term reproductive outcome of adults born at a very low birth weight

Abstract

VLBW children who reach adulthood may be at a significantly lower reproductive capacity.

Association of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight With Romantic Partnership, Sexual Intercourse, and Parenthood in Adulthood

“…A standardized form was used to extract data from each study that included publication details, country, characteristics of participants (year of birth, sample size, gestational age or birth weight, percentages of men, and age), type of study (ie, cohort or registry), type of social outcome, and outcome data (ie, means and standard deviations or numbers and frequencies) 37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63 (Table 1). The extraction was conducted independently by 2 of us (M.M.…”

Intergenerational transmission of birth weight: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…We also need more studies in order to understand the potential determinants, confounding factors and possible mediators of the association between birth weight of parents and children. (14) * * * * * * 6 Coutinho et al, 1997 (8) * * * * 4 Winkvist et al, 1998 (15) * * * * * 5 Hypponen 2004 (16) * * * * * * * * 8 Cuestas et al, 2007 (17) * * * * 4 Agnihotri et al, 2008 (18) * * * * * * * * * 9 Nordtveit et al, 2009 (19) * * * * * * 6 Mattsson et al, 2012 (20) * * * * * * 6 Agius et al, 2013 (21) * * * * * * * 7 Chapman et al, 2014 (28) * * * * * * 6 Addo et al, 2015 (22) * * * * * * * * 8 Costa e Silva et al, 2015 (23) * * * * 4 Kane et al, 2015 (24) * * * * * * 6 Giuntella et al, 2016 (25) * * * * * * 6 Ncube et al, 2017 (29) * * * * * * * 7 Drukker et al, 2018 (30) * * * * * * * * 8 Sepúlveda-Martínez et al, 2019 (31)…”

“…In case they did not respond to the email or did not provide the necessary data, we excluded the meta-analysis study (n=12). Thus, 20 studies were included in the meta-analysis, 14 in the mean difference analysis (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27) and 11 in the Odds Ratio (3,8,15,18,23,(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31) .Table 1 shows a description of the studies included in the meta-analysis.…”

“…Thus, twenty studies were included in the meta-analysis, fourteen in the MD analysis (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27) and eleven in the OR (3,8,15,18,23,(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31) .Table 1 shows a description of the studies included in the meta-analysis.…”

“…The results of the literature quality evaluation are shown in Table 3. Of the twenty studies included in this review, seventeen studies met more than half of the methodological quality criteria score (3,(14)(15)(16)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31) . Furthermore, three studies had four points in methodological quality (8,17,23) .…”