Prenatal hair growth.
4 Citations•1977•
D. Baum
Pediatrics
The authors' attention is drawn to the study which was published in 1974 entitled "Neonatal Hair as a Record of Intrauterine Nutrition."
Abstract
I read with interest the article by Saadat et al. entitled "Measurements of Hair in Normal Newborns" (Pediatrics 57:960, June 1976). May I, through the courtesy of your columns, draw the authors' attention to the study which we published in 1974 entitled "Neonatal Hair as a Record of Intrauterine Nutrition."1 In this study, using the scanning electron microscope, we measured scalp hair diameters serially from the hair root to the tip. We studied three groups of infants, a well-grown group of term infants; a group of very-small-for-dates term infants; and a group of preterm infants.