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International Newborn Size References for Very Preterm Infants: table of z-score for birth length-for-gestational age for very preterm infants

Usage

bl_gestage_pt_sd

Format

A tibble with 882 rows and 5 columns:

week

Gestational age weeks component

day

Gestational age days component

sex

Sex; 1 = male; 2 = female

sd

Standard deviation (z-score): -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3

bl

Birth length in centimetres

Source

Villar J, Giuliani F, Fenton TR, Ohuma EO, Ismail LC, Kennedy SH et al. INTERGROWTH-21st very preterm size at birth reference charts. Lancet 2016, 387(10021):844-45.

Examples

bl_gestage_pt_sd
#> # A tibble: 882 × 5
#>    week  day     sex sd    bl   
#>    <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#>  1 24    0         1 -3SD  24.4 
#>  2 24    0         1 -2SD  27.0 
#>  3 24    0         1 -1SD  29.6 
#>  4 24    0         1 0     32.2 
#>  5 24    0         1 1SD   34.8 
#>  6 24    0         1 2SD   37.4 
#>  7 24    0         1 3SD   40.0 
#>  8 24    1         1 -3SD  24.6 
#>  9 24    1         1 -2SD  27.2 
#> 10 24    1         1 -1SD  29.8 
#> # … with 872 more rows