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Low-birth-weight infants (< 2500 g) may result from pregnancies terminating before the completion of a normal gestational period (preterm infant) or from pregnancies during which the rate of intrauterine growth is abnormally slow, regardless of the duration of the gestation (SGA or small-for-gestational-age infant). Ever since the World Health Organization (1950) defined prematurity on the basis of birth weight (< 2500 g) alone, there has been slow but increasing recognition that a significant percentage of low-birth-weight infants are due to a decreased intrauterine growth rate rather than preterm delivery (Gruenwald, 1963).
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Battaglia, F.C., Simmons, M.A. (1978). The Low-Birth-Weight Infant. In: Falkner, F., Tanner, J.M. (eds) Human Growth. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2622-9_18
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