Postnatal growth standards for preterm infants: the Preterm Postnatal Follow-up Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

Postnatal growth standards for preterm infants: the Preterm Postnatal Follow-up Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

Background: Charts of size at birth are used to assess the postnatal growth of preterm babies on the assumption that extrauterine growth should mimic that in the uterus. Methods: The INTERGROWTH-21st Project assessed fetal, newborn, and postnatal growth in eight geographically defined populations, i...

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Main Authors: Prof. José Villar, MD, Francesca Giuliani, MD, Prof. Zulfiqar A Bhutta, PhD, Prof. Enrico Bertino, MD, Eric O Ohuma, MSc, Leila Cheikh Ismail, PhD, Prof. Fernando C Barros, MD, Prof. Douglas G Altman, DSc, Prof. Cesar Victora, MD, Prof. Julia A Noble, DPhil, Michael G Gravett, MD, Manorama Purwar, MD, Prof. Ruyan Pang, MD, Ann Lambert, PhD, Aris T Papageorghiou, MD, Roseline Ochieng, MMed, Yasmin A Jaffer, MD, Prof. Stephen H Kennedy, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-11-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X15001631

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