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Birth Weight Peer-review Journals

 Birth weight is main cause of neonatal and infant mortality and contributes to childhood morbidity. It is revealed that factors contributing to low birth weight (LBW) for a developing country include: low maternal caloric consumption or insufficient weight gain during pregnancy, low pre-pregnancy [GP1] weight short stature, and female sex of the fetus. Scholarly referee is that the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts within the same field, before a paper describing this work is published during a journal. The work could also be accepted, considered acceptable with revisions, or rejected. Peer review requires a community of experts during a given (narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and ready to perform reasonably impartial review. The hypothesis that early growth affects long-term energy balance regulation seems plausible because the hypothalamic neuro-endocrine circuits involved in energy homeostasis are sensitive for nutritional influences during gestation and directly after birth. However, caution is needed when extrapolating findings from these rat studies to the human situation, because the timing in the development of energy-balance regulation is different between species and because the nutritional regimens used to model early life malnutrition are rather extreme, with intakes reduced to 30% of controls. This might induce a pathological response not directly relevant to the normal human pregnancy.  [GP1]

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