Abstract:In 1984, Peter Dunn postulated that infants from 28 weeks' gestation till 18 weeks' postnatal age who grow normally have almost identical poteptial growth velocities, regardless of racial and geographic differences. He suggested that the straight line growth curve in this period could be used as a perinatal growth chart for international reference. We composed biological growth curves for Japanese fetuses by eliminating data with risk factors for fetal growth, and compared them with the curves of Dunn. Our con… Show more
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