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Franchi-Pinto,Carla; Colletto,Glória Maria Duccini Dal; Krieger,Henrique; Beiguelman,Bernardo. |
Intraclass correlation coefficients for one- and five-min Apgar scores of 604 twin pairs born at a southeastern Brazilian hospital were calculated, after adjusting these scores for gestational age and sex. The data support a genetic hypothesis only for 1-min Apgar score, probably because it is less affected by the environment than 4 min later, after the newborns have been under the care of a neonatology team. First-born twins exhibited, on average, better clinical conditions than second-born twins. The former showed a significantly lower proportion of Apgar scores under seven than second-born twins, both at 1 min (17.5% vs. 29.8%) and at 5 min (7.2% vs. 11.9%). The proportion of children born with "good" Apgar scores was significantly smaller among twins... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000100003 |
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