Epedemiological Study of Risk Factors Associated with Low Birth Weight

Low birth weight is a multifactorial in etiology situation that allies to a wide range of environmental and maternal risk factors. This book is an effort to study the risk factors associated with infants who are born smaller than enviable birth weight. The results of the study showed that prenatal maternal exposure to several factors is independently associated with LBW. Majority of the predetermined factors are modifiable exposures that could possibly lead to a reduction of delivering LBW infants.