caa a22 4500 606241167 CHVBK 20210128101311.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00508-014-0686-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00508-014-0686-2 Length and weight of newborns in Croatia from 1985 to 2009 [Elektronische Daten] [Hrvojka Soljacic Vranes, Ivka Djakovic] Gewicht und Länge von Neugeborenen in Kroatien zwischen 1985 und 2009 Summary: Background: Constitutional characteristics of humans are changing. People are becoming taller and they weigh more. These changes influence birth weight and birth length as well. Methods: A study was conducted on 2414 mothers and their newborns from 1985 to 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia, to establish a secular change in the weight and length of infants and the factors that are most related to these changes. Results: Birth weight has increased significantly in the past 25 years, and it is higher in male newborns. Taller mothers, with higher weight and body mass index, deliver newborns with higher birth weight. Weight gain in pregnancy has positive impact on birth weight. Multiparas and older and more educated women deliver newborns with higher weight. Birth weight does not depend on father's education. The number of newborns with birth weight more than 4000g is increasing, but not significantly. Birth length was not significantly higher. Birth length is higher in male newborns, in newborns with higher birth weight and newborns of older and more educated mothers. Conclusion: Better life conditions and better health care improves population constitutional characteristics that have implications in higher birth weight and birth length. This could be an important change that influences delivery modalities. Springer-Verlag Wien, 2014 Secular changes nationallicence Newborns weight nationallicence Newborns length nationallicence Säkularen Veränderungen nationallicence Geburtsgewicht nationallicence Körperlänge bei der Geburt nationallicence Vranes Hrvojka Soljacic Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Center "Sestre milosrdnice”, Vinogradska 29, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut Djakovic Ivka Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Center "Sestre milosrdnice”, Vinogradska 29, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut Wiener klinische Wochenschrift Springer Vienna 127/17-18(2015-09-01), 685-690 0043-5325 127:17-18<685 2015 127 508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-014-0686-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-014-0686-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vranes Hrvojka Soljacic Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Center "Sestre milosrdnice”, Vinogradska 29, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Djakovic Ivka Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Center "Sestre milosrdnice”, Vinogradska 29, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wiener klinische Wochenschrift Springer Vienna 127/17-18(2015-09-01), 685-690 0043-5325 127:17-18<685 2015 127 508