Publications by authors named "M Heagarty"
Assessments of the possible consequences of prenatal exposure to cocaine have been limited by lack of control for socio-demographic confounders and lack of follow-up into the school years. We evaluated intelligence at ages 6-9 years in 88 children from a cohort of 280 born between September 1, 1985 and August 31, 1986 and identified at birth as cocaine-exposed, and in a group of unexposed (n = 96) births of comparable gender and birthweight. IQ scores did not differ between children with and without prenatal exposure to cocaine (mean 82.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine the hospital cost of caring for newborn infants with congenital syphilis.
Study Population: All live-born singleton neonates with birth weight greater than 500 gm at an inner-city municipal hospital in New York City in 1989.
Methods: We compared the characteristics of 114 infants with case-compatible congenital syphilis with those of 2906 infants without syphilis.
Objective: To determine the effect of maternal viral load at delivery on the risk of perinatal transmission of HIV-1.
Design: A nested case-control study within a prospectively followed cohort of HIV-1-infected pregnant women and their infants.
Setting: The multicenter New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative Study.
Objective: To determine the incidence of HIV-1-related clinical findings, mortality and predictors of death in a cohort of HIV-exposed infants followed from birth.
Methods: Data were collected approximately bimonthly during the first and second year of life and used in Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards survival analyses to predict time to the development of symptoms and death.
Results: One hundred sixteen infected and 396 uninfected infants were followed for a median of 26 months at 7 New York City hospitals from 1986 to 1995.