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SUBMITTER: Azevedo IG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761712 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Azevedo Ingrid G IG Holanda Norrara S O NSO Arrais Nivia M R NMR Santos Raweny T G RTG Araujo Ana G F AGF Pereira Silvana A SA
BMC pediatrics 20190926 1
<h4>Background</h4>Although over the years a number of studies have used chest circumference (CC) as a sensitive tool to identify the health status of infants, a particularly important aspect for this population is the lack of data on normal values and prediction equations. In order to facilitate and validate the interpretation of CC data in newborn (NB), the aim was to study the relation between CC and other anthropometric variables and develop a predictive equation for CC in a population of fu ...[more]