title: Trend of birthweights of African newborns: an overview.
abstract: Birthweight remains a good index for defining health care delivery as well as the status of the mother prenatally and during pregnancy. Birthweight is also an important assessor of neonatal viability. It varies from each community, region or nation with a 17% incidence of low birthweight in west Africa; 13.5% in east Africa; 6.8% in western Europe and 6.1% in east Asia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, College of Medical Sciences, University of Maidaguri, Nigeria.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Airede
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D001724:Birth Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors