Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhutta.
The need for national reference anthropometric standards: a necessity or exercise in futility?.
Pak Paed J Jan ;20(1):11-5.

The importance of birth weight in the determination of infant morbidity and mortality cannot be underestimated. A major advance in the recognition of birth weight as a health determinant was the adoption of the term low-birth -weight (<2500 gms) by the WHO in 1961. A few years later, with Battaglia and Lubchenco`s work on fetal growth charts, it became possible to assess the quality of intrauterine growth by weight for gestational age criteria. A major milestone in perinatal medicine was this recognition that some low-birth-weight infants were suffering from intrauterine growth retardation rather than prematurity. This is a review article.

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