Centile charts for birthweight for gestational age for Scottish singleton births
Open Access
- 25 February 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Vol. 8 (1), 5
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-8-5
Abstract
Centile charts of birthweight for gestational age are used to identify low birthweight babies. The charts currently used in Scotland are based on data from the 1970s and require updating given changes in birthweight and in the measurement of gestational age since then.Keywords
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