In the medical journal The Lancet, the INTERGROWTH-21st Consortium, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, publish the final set of charts that enable healthcare professionals worldwide to ...

In the medical journal The Lancet, the INTERGROWTH-21st Consortium, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, publish the final set of charts that enable healthcare professionals worldwide to ...

The INTERGROWTH-21st Consortium has published the final set of charts that enable healthcare professionals worldwide to assess the weight, length and head circumference of newborns from 24 to 42 weeks ...

To describe growth of prematurely born infants and create a growth chart adequate to assess growth of infants with less than 29 completed weeks of gestation. With the approval of the Institutional ...

How do I determine if head growth/circumference is appropriate when small size may be in the family history? I have patients that begin to drop below the 5th percentile, but I suspect this may not be ...

Inuit children, who are Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions, may have different head size norms due to genetic and environmental factors. Relying on WHO growth curves can lead to ...

In those early days of new parenthood, a trip to the doctor’s office for a baby check-up can feel like a grand occasion. Aside from giving you a reason to put on pants and interact with real-life ...

My daughter Mary was a healthy little girl at birth: 7.8 pounds and slightly on the tall side. But her head circumference was almost off the charts. At 14.2 inches around, her skull was in the 96 th ...

Stature, sitting height, stature by weight, and head circumference change with varying economic conditions during early childhood. Our hypothesis is that adult head shape, as well as head size, is ...

Using population-specific growth curves for Inuit children could promote the appropriate diagnosis of microcephaly and avoid overdiagnosis, according to a new study. Inuit children from Nunavut, ...

Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, are being overdiagnosed for macrocephaly and underdiagnosed for microcephaly, two neurological conditions measured by head size ...