New birth weight reference standards customised to birth order and sex of babies from South India

New birth weight reference standards customised to birth order and sex of babies from South India

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The foetal growth standards for Indian children which are available today suffer due to methodological problems. These are, for example, not adhering to the WHO recommendation to base gestational age on the number of completed weeks...

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Main Authors: Kumar Velusamy Saravana, Jeyaseelan Lakshmanan, Sebastian Tunny, Regi Annie, Mathew Jiji, Jose Ruby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2013-02-01
Series:BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Subjects:
Reference
Foetal growth
Birth weight
Gestational age
Preterm
Modelling
Box–Cox t
Cubic spline smoothing
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/13/38

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