Meta-analysis on partial risk factors of full-term infants with low birth weight / 中华流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the risk factors of fluil-term infants with low birth weight.Methods All related Chinese and English literatures published from 1980 to February 25,2016 were collected from CBM,CNKI,Wang Fang Data,Medline and Embase databases,and screened with inclusion and exclusion criteria and Stata13.0 software was used in this Meta-analysis.Results Twenty three studies were included and there were 278 020 subjects.Female infants (pooled OR=1.60,95％CI1.49-1.72),less antenatal care visits (pooled OR=1.81,95％CI1.54-2.11),maternal passive smoking (pooled OR=1.49,95％CI1.08-2.06),pregnancy-induced hypertension (pooled OR=2.96,95％CI1.85-4.74) and hypamnion (pooled OR=2.71,95％CI1.87-3.93) were the risk factors for fluil-term infants with low birth weight.Conclusion Departments of maternal and health care should encourage pregnant women to have antenatal care visits to find and treat their pregnancy complications,and avoid passive smoking actively through health education for the purpose to prompt the birth quality of infants.