title: Relative effect of parental birth weight on infant birth weight at term.
abstract: The relations between some hereditary and environmental factors and the variation in infant birth weight were estimated by multiple linear regression analyses on a sample of 276 Scandinavian single term pregnancies. Gestational age explained 10.9%, fetal factors (maternal and paternal birth weights and fetal sex) 7.9%, maternal factors (parity, pre-pregnancy weight and height) 5.5% and external factors (adjusted weight gain and smoking) 5.8% of the variation in infant birth weight. It is concluded that maternal and paternal birth weights are rather poor predictors of infant birth weight. Together they explain only 5.6% of the variation in infant birth weight at term.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Uppsala University, University Hospital, Sweden.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Langhoff-Roos
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Lindmark
authors: K H
authors: KH
authors: Gustavson
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Gebre-Medhin
authors: O
authors: O
authors: Meirik
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001724:Birth Weight; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D010298:Parity; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011247:Pregnancy; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects