Hindawi Publishing Corporation BioMed Research International Volume 2015, Article ID 615034, 9 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/615034
Research Article The Intergenerational Effects on Birth Weight and Its Relations to Maternal Conditions, São Paulo, Brazil Leide Irislayne Macena da Costa e Silva,1 Filumena Maria da Silva Gomes,1 Maria Helena Valente,1 Ana Maria de Ulhôa Escobar,1 Alexandra Valéria Maria Brentani,1,2 and Sandra J. F. E. Grisi1,2 1
Pediatrics Department, Medical School (FMUSP), University of S˜ao Paulo (USP), 05508-070 S˜ao Paulo, SP, Brazil Hospital Universit´ario (HU), University of S˜ao Paulo (USP), 05508-000 S˜ao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Correspondence should be addressed to Leide Irislayne Macena da Costa e Silva;
[email protected] Received 8 August 2014; Revised 16 October 2014; Accepted 21 October 2014 Academic Editor: Kosmas Paraskevas Copyright © 2015 Leide Irislayne Macena da Costa e Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background and Objectives. Parents’ birth weight acts as a predictor for the descendant birth weight, with the correlation more strongly transmitted through maternal line. The present research aims to study the correlation between the child’s low or increased birth weight, the mother’s birth weight, and maternal conditions. Methods. 773 mother-infant binomials were identified with information on both the baby’s and the mother’s birth weight recorded. Group studies were constituted, dividing the sample according to birth weight (
