Aim It is common in Sweden to discharge infants early from a neonatal intensive care unit (
NICU ) and provide hospital‐assisted neonatal home care ( HANHC ), as an alternative to …

Objectives To investigate whether gestational age modifies the association of airway infections
that result in hospital admission during the first year after birth, with subsequent asthma …

We evaluated an intervention program to control pregnancy weight gain among obese
women with body mass index > 30 by a dietary and physical activity program. Maternal weight …

Background The use of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in infants has increased during the
last decades, making the need for equipment‐ and ethnic‐specific reference data mandatory …

Background: Ex-preterm infants have more airway symptoms in childhood, and forced
expiratory flows have been shown to remain low or even diminishing during the first two years …

Objective: To study signs of impaired airway function prior to lower airway infection in preterm
infants. Design/Methods: 156 consecutively born infants, born at 27-33 weeks gestation, …

Results: Compared to earlier published reference values according to Lum et al 2010 and
Jones et al 2000, the forced expiratory flow in term study infants differed: -z-score for FEV 0, 5 …

Background Both healthy preterm infants and infants with BPD have shown to have more
obstructive airways during childhood when compared with healthy infants born at term.

Methods: The study base for this project is all 1500000 births in Sweden between 1981 and
1995, inclusive. All infants who were hospitalized for lower airway infection during the first …

Background Polyamine intake from milk is considered essential for post‐natal maturation of
the immune system and small intestine. The present study aimed to determine polyamine …