Does one size fit all? The case for ethnic-specific standards of fetal growth
Open Access
- 8 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Vol. 8 (1) , 1
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-8-1
Abstract
Birth weight for gestational age is a widely-used proxy for fetal growth. Although the need for different standards for males and females is generally acknowledged, the physiologic vs pathologic nature of ethnic differences in fetal growth is hotly debated and remains unresolved.Keywords
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