Growth discordance and the effect of a male twin on birth weight of its female co-twin: a population-based study
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E. Blumrosen
Abstract
There is an ongoing controversy whether the presence of a male twin affects the birth weight of its female co-twin, and if affected, whether birth weights of females are lower or higher in the presence of a male co-twin. The purpose of this study was to study this controversy in a large population of 12,639 twin pairs born in Israel between 1993–1998. Comparison of 7566 females in same-sex (FF) pairs with 4900 females in unlike-sex (FM) pairs, adjusted for the lighter and heavier twin in the pair, showed significantly higher birth weights of females in FM pairs. The same trend was found when concordant pairs and discordant pairs (birth weight difference > 25%) were compared separately. No significant difference was found when 7912 males in same-sex (MM) pairs were compared with 4900 males in FM pairs, adjusted for the lighter and heavier sib. Our study supports a definite intrauterine effect of the male twin on birth weight of its female co-twin. This consequence may potentially be associated with fetal programming of adult disease.
Copyright © 2002 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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Articles in the same Issue
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Contents
- Preterm premature rupture of the membranes and antioxidants: the free radical connection
- Vaginal lactobacilli and preterm birth
- Socioeconomic and environmental risk factors of bacterial vaginosis in early pregnancy
- Evaluation of creatine kinase level during long-term tocolysis
- Maternal serum glycodelin in premature rupture of membranes
- Clinical and biophysical aspects of HELLP-syndrome
- Blood flow velocity waveforms of the fetal middle cerebral artery in a normal population: reference values from 18 weeks to 42 weeks of gestation
- Cerebral hemoglobin concentration and oxygen saturation measured by intensity modulated optical spectroscopy in the human fetus during labor
- Growth discordance and the effect of a male twin on birth weight of its female co-twin: a population-based study
- Rhabdomyolysis during prolonged intravenous tocolytic therapy
- A rare presentation of Pompe disease with massive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at birth
- Complete spontaneous resolution of severe nonimmunological hydrops fetalis with unknown etiology in the second trimester – a case report
- Epiphyseal separation of the distal humerus
- Congress Calendar
