Search for dissertations about: "fetal-growth"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 66 swedish dissertations containing the word fetal-growth.
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1. Surveillance of late fetal growth restriction and outcome after late preterm birth
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2. Very preterm birth and fetal growth restriction in adolescence - Cardiovascular and renal aspects
Abstract : This thesis applied magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate to what extent very preterm birth due to early onset fetal growth restriction (FGR) impacts the cardiovascular system and kidneys in adolescence. The thesis further investigated whether FGR exacerbates the organ-specific effects of very preterm birth. READ MORE
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3. Fetal growth, social factors and circulatory diseases
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4. Cardiovascular function in normal pregnancy and fetal growth
Abstract : Background: Pregnancy is a challenge to a woman’s cardiovascular system, and extensive haemodynamic changes are required for optimal utero-placental circulation and fetal growth. The aim of this thesis was firstly to examine different aspects of vascular function in the same women longitudinally during normal pregnancy, and secondly to explore whether there is an association between maternal cardiovascular function, placental function, and fetal growth. READ MORE
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5. Health consequences of adverse fetal growth : studies in twins
Abstract : Findings of associations between birth weight and adult health outcomes have been taken to indicate that fetal growth – and fetal nutrition in particular – may program future health and disease in the developing individual. However, the study of prenatal exposures in humans is challenging, and most of the evidence to support fetal programming thus rests on proxy measures, such as birth weight and birth weight for gestational age. READ MORE