Correspondence to Dr Osuke Iwata, Center for Human Development and Family Science, Department of Neonatology and Pediatrics, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and Medical ...

Introduction In Brazil, the Apgar score is the main indi-cator of immediate risk at birth and general movements (GMs) are the gold standard markers for neuromotor out-comes. However, there are no ...

Abstract: APGAR (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration) Score is a system that evaluates the post-birth health status of newborns and is scored between 0-10. This score, which consists of ...

Today, we are going to talk about Virginia Apgar, a woman who changed the history of medicine with a simple thing. In the middle of the 20th century, when a baby was born in a hospital, there was no ...

Abstract: One of the challenges in examining development of newborns is measuring activities which are correlated to their health. Oral feeding is the most important factor in an infant's healthy ...

Children with both a low 5-minute Apgar score and low umbilical cord blood pH at birth had a greater risk of developing ADHD than reference newborns. No increased ADHD risk was observed when Apgar ...

In his masterful book Better, surgeon Atul Gawande writes that in the 1950s, newborn babies in the United States faced great danger: "One in thirty still died at birth—odds that were scarcely better ...

OBJECTIVE: To correlate the Apgar score, and neonatal mortality and its causes at a hospital located in the southern area of São Paulo City. METHODS: A retrospective study performed by analysis of ...

Clinical Science at North Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Objective: To investigate the association of brief (0–5 minutes) and prolonged (>5 minutes) low Apgar scores (<7) in ...

A 5-minute Apgar score < 7 was significantly associated with increased risks for in-hospital mortality, severe intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), retinopathy of ...

Low Apgar scores have been associated with an increased risk of brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders in newborns with congenital heart defects (CHDs). However, the relation between CHD ...