LBW

Examples

• All

• Lifetime costs to care for a LBW infant can run as high as $400,000.

  Academic text (2001)

• Yet, preventing only one LBW birth saves the U.S. health care system about $14,000 to $30,000.

  Academic text (2001)

• We did not see this pattern among former LBW African American mothers.

  Academic text (2011)

• The prevalence of the term LBW in the study population was 2.1%.

  Academic text (2012)

• More knowledge is needed about how race and ethnicity may act as a buffer to LBW.

  Academic text (2001)

• A more recent population-based study found that infant LBW rates declined as the adult economic environment of African American women improved.

  Academic text (2011)

• An expanding literature shows that maternal LBW is also a risk factor for preterm birth in both races.

  Academic text (2011)

• According to Rowe (1989), it costs about $400 to provide prenatal care necessary to prevent LBW.

  Academic text (2001)

• Here we used three different exposure data sources to examine the odds of term LBW in Los Angeles, California, women when exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollutants prenatally.

  Academic text (2012)

• The doctors monitored several LBW infants during their initial treatment in the neonatal unit.

Synonyms

L

low-birth-weight baby

vsLBW

• Specialized

1 3.9

A baby born weighing less than 5.5 pounds or 2,500 grams

is the abbreviation used in medical contexts for that weight category

L

low-birth-weight infant

vsLBW

• Specialized

1 3.9

A baby born weighing less than 5.5 pounds or 2,500 grams

is the abbreviation used for that same formal term

Surface Forms

Etymology