Birth weight percentile charts based on daily measurements for very preterm male and female infants at the age of 154-223 days

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-295

  Voigt, Manfred ^a   Rochow, Niels ^a,b   Straube, Sebastian ^c   Briese, Volker ^d   Olbertz, Dirk ^a   Jorch, Gerhard ^e  

^a Klinikum Sudstadt   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gestational age; Percentiles based on daily measurements; Very preterm infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUBIC REGRESSION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOCAL REGRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952138722     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2010.031     Document Type: Article

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