Application of Child Growth Standards to Children Born Preterm in Epidemiologic Research: A Comparison of Methods and Implications for Inferences

Background: Growth standards are important tools used to evaluate a child’s growth relative to the expected norm. The most widely used growth standards, the World Health Organization Child Growth Standards (WHO-GS), are based on a cohort of term-born children (births ≥37 weeks gestational age [GA]) and are not directly applicable to preterm-born children (births

Department dc:contributor.department

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Perumal, Nandita

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Cole, Donald C
• Zlotkin, Stanley H

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1807/106790

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:utoronto.scholaris.ca:1807/106790