Birthweight by gestational age and sex at a rural referral center

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 236-240

  Storms, Michelle R ^a,b   Van Howe, Robert S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIMIGRAVIDA; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 16544374363     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211065     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Lubchenco LO, Hansman C, Dressler M, Boyd E. Intrauterine growth as estimated from liveborn birth-weight data at 24 to 42 weeks of gestation. Pediatrics 1963;32:793-800.
2. Battaglia FC, Lubchenco LO. A practical classification of newborn infants by weight and gestational age. J Pediatr 1967;71:159-63.
3. Thomas P, Peabody J, Turnier V, Clark RH. A new look at intrauterine growth and the impact of race, altitude, and gender. Pediatrics 2000;106:E21.
4. Alexander GR, Kogan MD, Himes JH. 1994-1996 U.S. singleton birth weight percentiles for gestational age by race, Hispanic origin, and gender. Matern Child Health J 1999;3:225-31.
5. Cazano C, Russell BK, Brion LP. Size at birth in an inner-city population. Am J Perinatol 1999;16:543-8.
6. Madan A, Holland S, Humbert JE, Benitz WE. Racial differences in birth weight of term infants in a northern California population. J Perinatol 2002;22:230-5.
7. Zhang B, Yip R, Wen F, Wang B. Comparison of birth weight by gestational age between China and the United States. Chin Med J (Engl) 1997;110:148-51.
8. Denham M, Schell LM, Gallo M, Stark A. Neonatal size of low socioeconomic status Black and White term births in Albany County, NYS. Ann Hum Biol 2001;28:172-83.
9. Overpeck MD, Hediger ML, Zhang J, Trumble AC, Klebanoff MA. Birth weight for gestational age of Mexican American infants born in the United States. Obstet Gynecol 1999;93:943-7.
10. Aguilar T, Teberg AJ, Chan L, Hodgman JE. Intrauterine growth curves of weight, length,and head circumference for a predominantly Hispanic infant population. Public Health Rep 1995;110:327-32.
11. Fuentes-Afflick E, Hessol NA. Impact of Asian ethnicity and national origin on infant birth weight. Am J Epidemiol 1997;145:148-55.
12. Singh GK, Yu SM. Birthweight differentials among Asian Americans. Am J Public Health 1994;84:1444-9.
13. Cohen BB, Friedman DJ, Mahan CM, Lederman R,Munoz D. Ethinicity, maternal risk, and birth weight among Hispanic in Massachusetts, 1987-89. Public Health Rep 1993;108:363-71.
14. Friedman DJ, Cohen BB, Mahan CM, Lederman RI, Vezina RJ, Dunn VH. Maternal ethnicity and birthweight among blacks. Ethn Dis 1993;3:255-69.
15. Klufio CA, Lassey AT, Annan BD, Wilson JB. Birthweight distribution at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana. East Afr Med J 2001;78:418-23.
16. Kieffer EC, Nolan GH, Carman WJ, Sanborn CZ, Guzman R, Ventura A. Glucose tolerance during pregnancy and birth weight in a Hispanic population. Obstet Gynecol 1999;94:741-6.
17. Thame M, Wilks RJ, McFarlane-Anderson N, Bennett FI, Forrester TE. Relationship between maternal nutritional status and infant's weight and body proportions at birth. Eur J Clin Nutr 1997;51:134-8.
18. Brown JE, Murtaugh MA, Jacobs Jr DR, Margellos HC. Variation in newborn size according to pregnancy weight change by trimester. Am J Clin Nutr 2002;76:205-9.
19. Dhawan S. Birth weights of infants of first generation Asian women in Britain compared with second generation Asian women. BMJ 1995;311:86-8.
20. Guaran RL, Wein P, Sheedy M, Walstab J, Beischer NA. Update of growth percentiles for infants born in an Australian population. Aust NZJ Obstet Gynaecol 1994;34:39-50.
21. Binkin NJ, Yip R, Fleshood L, Trowbridge FL. Birth weight and childhood growth. Pediatrics 1988;82:828-34.
22. Innes KE, Byers TE, Marshall JA, Baron A, Orleans M, Hamman RF. Association of a women's own birth weight with subsequent risk for gestational diabetes. JAMA 2002;287:2534-41.
23. Michels KB, Trichopoulos D, Robins JM, et al. Birthweight as a risk factor for breast cancer. Lancet 1996;348:1542-6.
24. Lubchenco LO, Bard H. Incidence of hypoglycemia in newborn infants classified by birth weight and gestatoinal age. Pediatrics 1971;47: 831-8.
25. Wirth F, Goldberg K, Lubchenco LO. Neonatal hypervicosity: I. Incidence. Pediatrics 1979;63:833.
26. Lam MH, Wong GY, Lao TT. Reappraial of neonatal clavicular fracture: relationship between infant size and neonatal morbidity. Obstet Gynecol 2002;100:115-9.
27. Taddio A, Shah V, Gilbert-MacLeod C, Katz J. Conditioning and hyperalgesia in newborns exposed to repeated heel lances. JAMA 2002;288:857-61.
28. Dornhorst A, Nicholls JS, Welch A, Ali K, Chan SP, Beard RW. Correcting for ethnicity when defining large for gestational age infants in diabetic pregnancies. Diabet Med 1996;13:226-31.
29. Kramer MS, Platt RW, Wen SW, et al. A new and improved population-based Candian reference for birth weight for gestational age. Pediatrics 2001;180:e35.
30. Alexander GR, Himes JH, Kaufman RB, Mor J, Kogan M. A United States national reference for fetal growth. Obstet Gynecol 1996;87:163-8.
31. World Health Organization. Hypoglycemia of the newborn: review of the literature. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1997.