Cargando…

Customized birth weight for gestational age standards: Perinatal mortality patterns are consistent with separate standards for males and females but not for blacks and whites

BACKGROUND: Some currently available birth weight for gestational age standards are customized but others are not. We carried out a study to provide empirical justification for customizing such standards by sex and for whites and blacks in the United States. METHODS: We studied all male and female s...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Joseph, K S, Wilkins, Russell, Dodds, Linda, Allen, Victoria M, Ohlsson, Arne, Marcoux, Sylvie, Liston, Robert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC551609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15720720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-5-3