Prevalence of small-for-gestational-age and its mortality risk varies by choice of birth-weight-for-gestation reference population.

Prevalence of small-for-gestational-age and its mortality risk varies by choice of birth-weight-for-gestation reference population.

We use data from rural Nepal and South India to compare the prevalence of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and neonatal mortality risk associated with SGA using different birth-weight-for-gestation reference populations.We identified 46 reference populations in low-, middle-, and high-income countrie...

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Main Authors: Joanne Katz, Lauren A Wu, Luke C Mullany, Christian L Coles, Anne C C Lee, Naoko Kozuki, James M Tielsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3958448?pdf=render

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