Are selection criteria for healthy pregnancies responsible for the gap between fetal growth in the French national Elfe birth cohort and the Intergrowth-21st fetal growth standards?
Barbara HeudeMorgane Le GuernAnne ForhanPauline ScherdelManik KadawathagedaraMarie-Noëlle DufourgCorinne BoisMarie CheminatFrançois GoffinetJérémie BottonMarie-Aline CharlesJennifer ZeitlinPublished in: Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology (2018)
Intergrowth standards differed from fetal biometric measures in France, including among low-risk pregnancies selected to replicate IG's healthy pregnancy sample. These results challenge the project's assumption that careful constitution of a low-risk population makes it possible to describe normative fetal growth across populations.