Screening for intrauterine growth retardation using ratio of mid-arm circumference to occipitofrontal circumference
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Screening for intrauterine growth retardation using ratio of mid-arm circumference to occipitofrontal circumference.
Uncritical application of standard weight percentile charts, derived from white infants, to infants from different ethnic groups may result in an overestimate of the incidence of intrauterine growth retardation in those groups. The ratio of mid-arm circumference to occipitofrontal circumference was studied in 194 babies (49 Asian, 58 black, and 87 white). In contrast with birth weight the ratio...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.292.6534.1525-b