Antenatal screening and risk factors for intrauterine growth retardation.
Antenatal risk factors in combination with symphysis-fundus distance can identify pregnancies with small infants, who can be divided in genetically small, malformed, and malnourished infants. Only the last category benefit from fetal surveillance. Maternal diseases, pregnancy complications (hypertension), and environmental factors (smoking) are connected to malnourished small infants.
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University of Göteborg.
D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014463:Ultrasonography