New birth weight reference standards customised to birth order and sex of babies from South India

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kumar, Velusamy Saravana ^a   Jeyaseelan, Lakshmanan ^a   Sebastian, Tunny ^a   Regi, Annie ^a   Mathew, Jiji ^a   Jose, Ruby ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Box Cox t; Cubic spline smoothing; Foetal growth; Gestational age; Modelling; Preterm; Reference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; DELIVERY; DELIVERY ROOM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PARITY; PREMATURITY; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84873583932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-13-38     Document Type: Article

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