A study of gestational age and birth weight

Surainder, Y.A.; Prasad, S.K.; Hymavathy, V.

Indian Pediatrics 7(6): 338-346

1970


ISSN/ISBN: 0019-6061
PMID: 5471835
Document Number: 521592
The study was intended to be of all live born babies at Niloufer Hospital, Hyderabad, during 3 months in 1969; on the basis of gestational age and physical and neurological assessment they were grouped as preterm, term and post-term, the last 2 together as mature. From 860 live born babies, 380 could be included in the study as being single births and with reliably known gestation ages. Of those, 22, 5.80%, were pre-term, 292, 76.83%, term and 66, 17.37%, post-term.

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