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Article: Centile charts for birthweight for gestational age for Scottish singleton births.(Research article)
- Article from:
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Article date:
- February 25, 2008
- Author:
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Authors: Sandra Bonellie (corresponding author) [1]; James Chalmers [2]; Ron Gray [3]; Ian Greer [4]; Stephen Jarvis [5]; Claire Williams [1]
Background
Birthweight is one of the important indicators used to assess the health of an infant at birth. Low birthweight has often been defined as weights less than 2500 grams with birthweights less than 1500 grams classed as very low birthweight. These definitions however do not take into account gestational age. It is important to be able to differentiate between babies who are light because they are premature and those who are small-for-gestational age since the latter may have different health problems to ...
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