title: [Birth weight percentile values for girls and boys under consideration of maternal height].
abstract: There is a linear relationship between maternal height and birth weight. For each 1 cm increase in maternal height, birth weight increases by 16.7 g. Birth weight percentiles should be calculated by taking maternal height into account. We present birth weight percentile values for girls and boys born after 23-43 completed weeks of gestation for 5 maternal height groups. With these percentiles "genetically" small and "genetically" large, but healthy, neonates can be classified more adequately. The calculations are based on data of about 2.2 million singleton pregnancies from the German Perinatal Survey of 1995-2000.
authors.affiliation: German Center for Growth, Development and Health Encouragement during Childhood and Youth Berlin, Working Group Rostock-Sievershagen. voim13@t-online.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Voigt
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rochow
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guthmann
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hesse
authors.forename: K T M
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schnabel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight / Q000502:physiology*; D001827:Body Height / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009035:Mothers; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D055815:Young Adult