News tagged with taller mothers
Less child mortality among taller women in developing countries
Each centimeter/inch counts for women in developing countries. This is the outcome of research by Christiaan Monden of Tilburg University and Jeroen Smits of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, which was recently ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Speeding up evolution: Orchid epigenetics
Organisms adapt to their dynamic environment using various strategies. Ovidiu Paun, working at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, investigates how marsh orchids adjust to and diffuse in ...
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Higher chance of twins after IVF for taller women: study
Taller women who become pregnant after receiving two embryos through in-vitro fertilisation have more chance of giving birth to twins, a Dutch study presented Monday found.
Jul 04, 2011 |
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The amount of adipose tissue should be taken into account in the fight against obesity
Obesity is seen as the great pandemia of the XXI century. Recent data point to more than a billion adults in the world suffering from overweight, of which 300 million are clinically obese. What is more, the rates of child ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 29, 2010 |
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Scientists look at whether climate change is causing bigger ocean waves
It's one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world, where 1 million cubic feet of water a second collides with 20- or 30-foot ocean swells over a four-mile stretch of shifting sand.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2010 |
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IVF births result in taller children: NZ study
Children born using in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) are likely to be taller than their naturally conceived counterparts, New Zealand researchers have found.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Breast density study explores cancer risk factor
Mothers and daughters are participating in a first-of-its-kind study aimed at discovering the genes responsible for determining breast tissue density.
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Shorter maternal height associated with more deaths among children in developing countries
Mothers shorter than 4 feet, 9 inches in low- to middle-income countries had about a 40 percent higher risk of their children dying within the first five years of life than mothers who were 5 feet, 3 inches or taller according ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Plants prefer their kin, crowd out competition from strangers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants don't mind sharing space with their kin but when they're potted with strangers of the same species they start invigorating their leaves, a study by McMaster University reveals.
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Sun in pregnancy builds stronger bones for baby
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from ALSPAC (Children of the 90s) indicates that children born in late summer and early autumn are slightly taller and have wider bones than those born in winter and spring.
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking, data show
Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, ...
Dec 26, 2008 |
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