A new and improved population-based Canadian reference for birth weight for gestational age.

Kramer, M.; W. Platt, Robert; Wen, S.; Joseph, K.; Allen, A.; Abrahamowicz, M.; Blondel, B.; Breart, G.

doi:10.1542/PEDS.108.2.E35

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A New and Improved Population-Based Canadian Reference for Birth Weight for Gestational Age

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Authors:

Michael S. Kramer

Robert W. Platt

Shi Wu Wen

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Existing fetal growth references all suffer from 1 or more major methodologic problems, including errors in reported gestational age, biologically implausible birth weight for gestational age, insufficient sample sizes at low gestational age, single-hospital or other non-population-based...

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Gestational age

Medicine

Percentile

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