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Fernando C. Barros

Universidade Católica de Pelotas · BR
Area of research
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health · General Health Professions
Research interest
Research interests include Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare, Birth, Development, and Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, and Global Maternal and Child Health.
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92
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40,262
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710
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Small for gestational age subgroups have differential morbidity, growth, and neurodevelopment at age 2: the INTERBIO-21st Newborn Study
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Normative spatiotemporal fetal brain maturation with satisfactory development at 2 years
Nature 2023cited by 56position: middledoi
Machine learning for accurate estimation of fetal gestational age based on ultrasound images
npj Digital Medicine 2023cited by 53position: middledoi
Association between maternal haemoglobin concentrations and maternal and neonatal outcomes: the prospective, observational, multinational, INTERBIO-21st fetal study
The Lancet Haematology 2023cited by 42position: middledoi
Effects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs
The Lancet 2022cited by 106position: middledoi
Association between fetal abdominal growth trajectories, maternal metabolite signatures early in pregnancy, and childhood growth and adiposity: prospective observational multinational INTERBIO-21st fetal study
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2022cited by 43position: middledoi
Early-life stature, preschool cognitive development, schooling attainment, and cognitive functioning in adulthood: a prospective study in four birth cohorts
The Lancet Global Health 2022cited by 35position: middledoi
Preeclampsia prediction with blood pressure measurements: A global external validation of the ALSPAC models
Pregnancy Hypertension 2022cited by 6position: middledoi
Association Between Preterm-Birth Phenotypes and Differential Morbidity, Growth, and Neurodevelopment at Age 2 Years
JAMA Pediatrics 2021cited by 60position: middledoi
Fetal cranial growth trajectories are associated with growth and neurodevelopment at 2 years of age: INTERBIO-21st Fetal Study
Nature Medicine 2021cited by 51position: middledoi
Patterns of Growth in Childhood in Relation to Adult Schooling Attainment and Intelligence Quotient in 6 Birth Cohorts in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from the Consortium of Health-Oriented Research in Transitioning Societies (COHORTS)
Journal of Nutrition 2021cited by 27position: middledoi
International gestational age-specific centiles for umbilical artery Doppler indices: a longitudinal prospective cohort study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2020cited by 57position: middledoi
Fetal growth velocity standards from the Fetal Growth Longitudinal Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2020cited by 38position: middledoi
International values for haemoglobin distributions in healthy pregnant women
EClinicalMedicine 2020cited by 37position: middledoi
Associations between growth from birth to 18 years, intelligence, and schooling in a Brazilian cohort
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2020cited by 22position: middledoi
Global Epidemiology of Use of and Disparities in Caesarean Sections
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey 2019cited by 29position: middledoi
Deep clinical and biological phenotyping of the preterm birth and small for gestational age syndromes: The INTERBIO-21st Newborn Case-Control Study protocol
Gates Open Research 2019cited by 21position: middledoi
Global epidemiology of use of and disparities in caesarean sections
The Lancet 2018cited by 1,519position: middledoi
Deep clinical and biological phenotyping of the preterm birth and small for gestational age syndromes: The INTERBIO-21st Newborn Case-Control Study protocol
Gates Open Research 2018cited by 10position: middledoi
Estimates of burden and consequences of infants born small for gestational age in low and middle income countries with INTERGROWTH-21<sup>st</sup>standard: analysis of CHERG datasets
BMJ 2017cited by 389position: middledoi
International estimated fetal weight standards of the <scp>INTERGROWTH</scp>‐21<sup>st</sup> Project
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2017cited by 356position: middledoi
Congenital Zika virus syndrome in Brazil: a case series of the first 1501 livebirths with complete investigation
The Lancet 2016cited by 612position: middledoi
Gestational weight gain standards based on women enrolled in the Fetal Growth Longitudinal Study of the INTERGROWTH-21<sup>st</sup>Project: a prospective longitudinal cohort study
BMJ 2016cited by 172position: middledoi
Short Maternal Stature Increases Risk of Small-for-Gestational-Age and Preterm Births in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis and Population Attributable Fraction
Journal of Nutrition 2015cited by 207position: middledoi
International standards for newborn weight, length, and head circumference by gestational age and sex: the Newborn Cross-Sectional Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project
The Lancet 2014cited by 2,255position: middledoi
Mortality risk in preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants in low-income and middle-income countries: a pooled country analysis
The Lancet 2013cited by 940position: middledoi
Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries
International Journal of Epidemiology 2013cited by 599position: middledoi
The associations of parity and maternal age with small-for-gestational-age, preterm, and neonatal and infant mortality: a meta-analysis
BMC Public Health 2013cited by 545position: middledoi
Birth Status, Child Growth, and Adult Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Journal of Pediatrics 2013cited by 63position: middledoi

Grants

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Frequent collaborators

Stephen Kennedy · University of Oxford9 papers (2014–2025)Zulfiqar A Bhutta · Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva9 papers (2014–2025)Aris T. Papageorghiou · Women’s Health Care9 papers (2014–2025)Ann Lambert · University of Liège8 papers (2014–2025)Shane A. Norris · University of Toronto8 papers (2017–2025)Leila Cheikh Ismail · University of Sharjah8 papers (2014–2025)César G. Victora · Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia7 papers (2014–2022)Eric O. Ohuma · Anna Needs Neuroblastoma Answers7 papers (2014–2025)José Villar · John Radcliffe Hospital7 papers (2014–2023) · 6 papers (2017–2025) · 6 papers (2014–2023)Manorama Purwar · Hospital for Sick Children5 papers (2014–2023)Reynaldo Martorell · Emory University5 papers (2013–2022)Yasmin A. Jaffer · Hospital for Sick Children5 papers (2014–2023)François Nosten · Federal Medical Centre5 papers (2017–2025)James A. Berkley · Angkor Hospital for Children4 papers (2020–2025)Alan Stein · South African Medical Research Council4 papers (2013–2022)Enrico Bertino · University of Turin4 papers (2014–2023)Rachel Craik · Burnet Institute4 papers (2017–2025)J. Alison Noble · Antwerp Maritime Academy4 papers (2014–2023)