Birth ponderal index and body mass index
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Y. Lehingue; L. Remontet; F. Munoz; N. Mamelle
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A file of 100,716 children born between 1984 and 1988 in 22 maternity wards was used to estimate for each week of gestational age and gender, the exponent ฮฒ which makes an index Weight/Length independent from length. It varied with gestational age but remained near 3. Therefore, Rohrer's index (Weig