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

• Main Authors: Kumar Velusamy Saravana (Author), Jeyaseelan Lakshmanan (Author), Sebastian Tunny (Author), Regi Annie (Author), Mathew Jiji (Author), Jose Ruby (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The foetal growth standards for Indian children which are available today suffer due to methodological problems. These are, for example, not adhering to the WHO recommendation to base gestational age on the number of completed weeks...