Racial Differences in Birth Weight of Term Infants in a Northern California Population
Journal of PerinatologyPublished 1 April 2002
Ashima Madan, Sharon P. Holland, John E Humbert, W.E. Benitz
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Comparing the birth weight distributions for term Asian or Hispanic infants with that for White infants found that failure to account for ethnic differences in intrauterine growth may lead to inaccurate diagnosis of fetal growth abnormalities in infants of Asian ancestry.
Abstract
Failure to account for ethnic differences in intrauterine growth may lead to inaccurate diagnosis of fetal growth abnormalities in infants of Asian ancestry.
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