Title: 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