Birth weight of infants born between the 23rd and 42nd gestational week in Italy
Parazzini, F.; Cortinovis, I.; Bortolus, R.; Zanardo, V.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 20(2): 93-97
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 9706631 Document Number: 495799
The Italian distribution of birth weight has been computed using information routinely collected by the Italian Central Institute of Statistics on about 1,150,000 births in the period 1984-1985. Individual records include data on birth weight for single/multiple births for 28th-42nd gestational weeks and for delivery modalities for 23rd-27th gestational weeks, according to sex. This analysis shows, from a large national data-set, distribution of weight at birth from a Southern European population, providing to obstetrics and perinatologists curves of fetal growth more directly representative of the population under their care.