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Abstract
Intrauterine growth curves are the standard for assessing
the growth of term and preterm infants and are widely used in
the NICU setting. Standard anthropometric curves differ from
reference curves in that these illustrate “ideal” fetal growth
versus actual growth of infants over time, respectively. Newer
intrauterine growth curves have been published to improve on
earlier curves, by using more current, larger, and more diverse
samples of infants for growth measurements (and because the
earlier curves are based on samples of infants from outside the
population it applies on).
The goals for this study were to determine regional
percentile values and compare them with currently used
international curves, we determined the birth weight, length,
head circumference and skin fold thickness of 1000 term
neonates born in Ain Shams University Maternity hospital in
Cairo, Egypt.
Our results revealed that the mean birth weight, length,
head circumference and skin fold thickness were 3241 g, 50.3
cm, 34.9 cm and4.19 cm respectively for boys and for girls
were 3047 g, 49.1 cm, 34.2 cm and 3.9 cm respectively. So,
the term males are heavier, taller and with larger head
circumference and skin fold thickness than term females and
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differ from the currently used percentile curves of Lubchenco
that underestimate the birth weight, height and head
circumference at the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles. So, The
Lubchenco curves do not represent the current Egyptian
population and this leads to misclassification of small for
gestational age and large for gestational age neonates and it’s
recommended to use the new national charts in Egypt in the
assessment of full term neonates.