Percentielgrenzen voor geboortegewicht van vroeggeborenen moeten worden herzien [The birthweight percentiles of preterm infants need to be updated]
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Objective. To analyse whether the conventional so-called Kloosterman charts for birthweight of preterm infants based on data from 1931-1965 are still valid. Design. Descriptive investigation. Location. The Netherlands. Methods. Data were obtained from the 'project of the premature and small for gestational age' (POPS) survey in 1983. The population consisted of 855 Caucasian infants born after a pregnancy of 24-31 weeks. Results. In nearly all gestational age categories the percentages of small-for-gestational age infants were higher than the 10% they should have been by definition; the percentages of large-for-gestational age infants were much lower than 10%. After exclusion of elective births the percentages remained different. Conclusion. These shifts in the birthweight distribution are probably the results of changes in obstetrics. The birthweight percentiles for preterm births will have to be updated.
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TNO Identifier
232462
ISSN
00282162
Source
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 138(10), pp. 519-522.
Pages
519-522
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