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Reviewing birthweight standards
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1983.tb09301.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 90, Issue 8, pages 718–725, August 1983
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CARR-HILL, R. A. and PRITCHARD, C. W. (1983), Reviewing birthweight standards. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 90: 718–725. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1983.tb09301.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Received 18 August 1982 Accepted 5 March 1983
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Summary. The standardization of birthweight for gestational age, taking into accounhd sex of infant and maternal height and weight, is clinically useful and essential for some research purposes. In Britain, the most commonly used standards for singletons are those derived from Thomson et al. (1968) from a series of births to women in Aberdeen between 1948 and 1964. The present study starts with the observation that the present population of births in Aberdeen is different. This prompted work to ‘update’ the standards at least for research purposes, and in so doing a number of problems have been encountered which complicate the task of developing universally applicable standards.