Postnatal growth standards for preterm infants: the Preterm Postnatal Follow-up Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

• Main Authors: Prof. José Villar, MD (Author), Francesca Giuliani, MD (Author), Prof. Zulfiqar A Bhutta, PhD (Author), Prof. Enrico Bertino, MD (Author), Eric O Ohuma, MSc (Author), Leila Cheikh Ismail, PhD (Author), Prof. Fernando C Barros, MD (Author), Prof. Douglas G Altman, DSc (Author), Prof. Cesar Victora, MD (Author), Prof. Julia A Noble, DPhil (Author), Michael G Gravett, MD (Author), Manorama Purwar, MD (Author), Prof. Ruyan Pang, MD (Author), Ann Lambert, PhD (Author), Aris T Papageorghiou, MD (Author), Roseline Ochieng, MMed (Author), Yasmin A Jaffer, MD (Author), Prof. Stephen H Kennedy, MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Charts of size at birth are used to assess the postnatal growth of preterm babies on the assumption that extrauterine growth should mimic that in the uterus. Methods: The INTERGROWTH-21st Project assessed fetal, newborn, and postnatal growth in eight geographically defined populations, i...