Figure 1.
Flow diagram of records selection process.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population.
Figure 2.
Percentile charts for Chinese newborns. P3, P5 to P97 denote the 3rd, 5th to 97th percentile curves, respectively.
Figure 3.
Urban-rural variations of the 10th, 50th and 90th birth weight percentiles for Chinese infants irrespective of gender.
Table 2.
Smoothed birth weight percentiles for Chinese newborns during 2006–2010.
Figure 4.
Comparison of the 10th birth weight percentiles for boys between the current study, USA, Norway, Kuwait and Brazil.
Table 3.
Relative percentual differences in the 10th and 50th percentiles of birth weight between the current reference and previously published references.
Table 4.
Selected published gestational-age-specific birth weight centiles for comparison.