title: Birth weight of Italian infants of 30 weeks' gestation or less.
abstract: Mean birth weights and percentile charts are given for 161 singleton infants born between 24 and 30 weeks' gestation at the 2nd School of Medicine of Naples. This chart is the first for a Mediterranean population. Our data are similar to those reported from a United Kingdom population and from Japan, suggesting that ethnic differences in birth weight at this gestational age are unimportant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, 2nd School of Medicine, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Curtis
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Bland
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Paone
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vetrano
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Paludetto
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ciccimarra
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values