Background: Current fetal-infant growth references have an obvious
growth disjuncture around 40 week gestation overlapping where the fetal and infant
growth references are combined. Graphical smoothening of the disjuncture to connect
the matching percentile curves has never been validated. This study was designed to
compare weight gain ... read morepatterns of contemporary preterm infants with a fetal-infant
growth reference (derived from a meta-analysis) to validate the previous smoothening
assumptions and inform the revision of the Fenton chart.
Fenton, Tanis, Roseann Nasser, Misha Eliasziw, Jae H. Kim,
Denise Bilan, and Reg Sauve. "Validating the weight gain of preterm infants between
the reference growth curve of the fetus and the term infant." BMC Pediatrics 13, no.
1 (12, 2013): 1-10.