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A longitudinal study to determine association of various maternal factors with neonatal birth weight at a tertiary care hospital Lt Akshay Misra a, Surg Capt Sougat Ray b,*, Seema Patrikar c a

Intern, Military Hospital, Jalandhar, India Commanding Officer, INHS Navjivani, Kerala, India c Lecturer in Biostatistics & Demography, Dept of Community Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India b

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Background: Neonatal birth weight is a powerful predictor of infant growth and survival and

Received 9 January 2014

maternal factors like poor knowledge and insufficient dietary intake are significant risk

Accepted 10 March 2015

factors. Other preventable determinants like pre pregnant BMI 18.5), are important determinants of birth weight. Nutritional counseling for mothers during the antenatal period is the cornerstone for healthy mother and healthy child. © 2015, Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). All rights reserved.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: þ91 8390367279. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Ray). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mjafi.2015.03.001 0377-1237/© 2015, Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). All rights reserved.

m e d i c a l j o u r n a l a r m e d f o r c e s i n d i a 7 1 ( 2 0 1 5 ) 2 7 0 e2 7 3

Introduction More than 20 million infants worldwide are born with low birth weight (