{"id":3461,"date":"2014-11-10T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2014-11-10T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:10:13","slug":"healthy-baby-birth-weight-depends-on-mothers-birth-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/healthy-baby-birth-weight-depends-on-mothers-birth-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy baby birth weight depends on mother&#8217;s birth country<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Babies born in Canada from immigrant mothers, especially from East and South Asian mothers, are often of lower weight than babies from Canadian\u2019s mothers, but it\u2019s not worrisome a new study shows. It\u2019s usually thought that smaller infants are more likely to die or suffer adverse events than heavier infants.<\/p>\n<p>Research now shows that clinicians should follow the birth-weight curves from the mother\u2019s birth country as they are more accurate to predict a baby\u2019s potential health problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2014\/11\/10\/cmaj.140748\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>November 10, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmichaelshospital.com\/research\/profile.php?id=urquia&amp;navId=3.3.0.0.0\" target=\"_blank\">Marcelo Urquia<\/a><\/span>, Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies born in Canada from immigrant mothers, especially from East and South Asian mothers, are often of lower weight than babies from Canadian\u2019s mothers, but it\u2019s not worrisome a new study shows. It\u2019s usually thought that smaller infants are more likely to die or suffer adverse events than heavier infants. Research now shows that clinicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[975,51,53,50,476,1290],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-children","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-public-health","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-TP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}