International estimated fetal weight standards of the INTERGROWTH‐21st Project
Document Type
Article
Department
Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology (East Africa)
Abstract
Women with an accurate gestational-age assessment, who were enrolled in the prospective, international, multicenter, population-based Fetal Growth Longitudinal Study (FGLS) and INTERBIO-21st Fetal Study (FS), two components of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project, had ultrasound scans every 5 weeks from 9–14 weeks' until 40 weeks' gestation. At each visit, measurements of fetal head circumference (HC), biparietal diameter, occipitofrontal diameter, abdominal circumference (AC) and femur length (FL) were obtained blindly by dedicated research sonographers using standardized methods and identical ultrasound machines. Birth weight was measured within 12 h of delivery by dedicated research anthropometrists using standardized methods and identical electronic scales. Live babies without any congenital abnormality, who were born within 14 days of the last ultrasound scan, were selected for inclusion. As most births occurred at around 40 weeks' gestation, we constructed a bootstrap model selection and estimation procedure based on resampling of the complete dataset under an approximately uniform distribution of birth weight, thus enriching the sample size at extremes of fetal sizes, to achieve consistent estimates across the full range of fetal weight. We constructed reference centiles using second-degree fractional polynomial models.
Publication (Name of Journal)
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Recommended Citation
Stirnemann, J.,
Villar, J.,
......, ..,
Vinayak, S.
(2016). International estimated fetal weight standards of the INTERGROWTH‐21st Project. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 49(4), 478-486.
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https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_imaging_diagn_radiol/67