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Customised and Noncustomised Birth Weight Centiles and Prediction of Stillbirth and Infant Mortality and Morbidity: A Cohort Study of 979,912 Term Singleton Pregnancies in Scotland.

Stamatina IliodromitiDaniel F MackayGordon C S SmithJill P PellNaveed SattarDeborah A LawlorScott M Nelson
Published in: PLoS medicine (2017)
At term, birth weight remains strongly associated with the risk of stillbirth and infant death and neonatal morbidity. Partial customisation does not improve prediction performance. Consideration of early term delivery or closer surveillance for those with a predicted birth weight ≤25th or ≥85th centile may reduce adverse outcomes. Replication of the analysis with fully customised centiles accounting for ethnicity is warranted.
Keyphrases
  • birth weight
  • gestational age
  • preterm birth
  • public health
  • cardiovascular events
  • preterm infants
  • cardiovascular disease
  • weight loss