Should We Use Customized Fetal Growth Percentiles in Urban Canada?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 164-170

  Melamed, Nir ^a   Ray, Joel G ^b   Shah, Prakesh S ^c   Berger, Howard ^b   Kingdom, John C ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Customized; Growth; Percentiles

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; CESAREAN SECTION; CUSTOMIZED FETAL GROWTH PERCENTILE; ESTIMATED FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYNDROME DELINEATION; URBAN AREA; ARTICLE; CUSTOMIZED; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH; PERCENTILES; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE; URBAN POPULATION;

CUSTOMIZED; GROWTH; PERCENTILES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84899132183     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(15)30663-0     Document Type: Note

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