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Infant, Low Birth Weight

"Infant, Low Birth Weight" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An infant having a birth weight of 2500 gm. (5.5 lb.) or less but INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT is available for infants having a birth weight of 1500 grams (3.3 lb.) or less.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Infant, Low Birth Weight" by people in this website by year, and whether "Infant, Low Birth Weight" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2019
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