International versus national growth charts for identifying small and large-for-gestational age newborns: A population-based study in 15 European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To inform the on-going debate about the use of universal prescriptive versus national intrauterine growth charts, we compared perinatal mortality for small and large-for-gestational-age (SGA/LGA) infants according to international and national charts in Europe.

Methods

We classified singleton births from 33 to 42 weeks of gestation in 2010 and 2014 from 15 countries (N = 1,475,457) as SGA (birthweight <10th percentile) and LGA (>90th percentile) using the international Intergrowth-21st newborn standards and national charts based on the customised charts methodology. We computed sex-adjusted odds ratios (aOR) for stillbirth, neonatal and extended perinatal mortality by this classification using multilevel models.

Findings

SGA and LGA prevalence using

SUBMITTER: Hocquette A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8454535 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature