Caring for Children Born Small for Gestational Age

Description:

Care for Children Born Small for Gestational Age is a comprehensive handbook that serves to synthesize the extensive recent literature in the area to provide a practical resource aimed at a wide range of healthcare professionals, including obstetricians, midwives, neonatologists, and primary care physicians. This comprehensive handbook includes an in-depth survey of the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and long-term monitoring of children born small for gestational age, as well as related conditions such as intrauterine growth restriction, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Additionally, the short and long-term psychiatric and social consequences of this condition are addressed.

subjects: Metabolism,  Disorders,  Pediatrics,  Growth disorders,  Medicine,  Obstetrics,  Maternal and infant welfare,  Endocrinology,  Medicine & Public Health,  Obstetrics/Perinatology,  Maternal and Child Health,  Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,  MEDICAL,  Gynecology & Obstetrics