ArticleArchives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition2012
Designing the new UK-WHO growth charts to enhance assessment of growth around birth.
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- Expected and Desirable Preterm and Small Infant Growth Patterns.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Centile reference chart for resting metabolic rate through the life course.Archives of disease in childhood · 2023Article
- Comparison of National Growth Standards for Turkish Infants and Children with World Health Organization Growth StandardsJournal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology · 2022Article
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- Prolonged transitional neonatal hypoglycaemia: characterisation of a clinical syndrome.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Lower versus higher diagnostic criteria for the detection of gestational diabetes for reducing maternal and perinatal morbidity: study protocol for the GEMS randomised trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
- Weight gain in early years and subsequent body mass index trajectories across birth weight groups: a prospective longitudinal study.European journal of public health · 2020Article
- Modelling predictive gender- and gestation-specific weight reference centiles for preterm infants using a population-based cohort study.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Weight Status and Dental Problems in Early Childhood: Classification Tree Analysis of a National Cohort.Dentistry journal · 2017Article
- Comparing apples with apples: it is time for standardized reporting of neonatal nutrition and growth studies.Pediatric research · 2016Review
- Evolution of lung function during the first year of life in newborn screened cystic fibrosis infants.Thorax · 2014Observational
- Maternal selenium, copper and zinc concentrations in pregnancy associated with small-for-gestational-age infants.Maternal & child nutrition · 2014Article
- Impact of ethnicity and extreme prematurity on infant pulmonary function.Pediatric pulmonology · 2014Observational
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- Reappraisal of Regional Growth Charts in the Era of WHO Growth Standards.Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2013Review
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Abstract
The decision to adopt the new WHO standard in the UK necessitated substantial changes to the neonatal section of the chart, including separation of the preterm UK birth weight reference from the WHO standard. The evidence-based design process has led to several novel features that could be generally applied in other chart designs, and revealed uncertainties leading to inconsistencies in charting. Failing to plot the birth weight of term infants at age 0 can lead to spurious centile crossing in the early weeks of life, particularly among infants at the extreme of gestation. Users will need training to use the charts, but this should improve overall understanding and the use of charts.
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