Infant Growth Tied to Birth Weight Percentiles

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About The Study: In this cohort study of 38,535 singletons, birth weight decile was associated with early-life growth patterns. Birth weight decile group may help identify high-risk children missed by conventional thresholds, although the benefit of analysis using decile group over traditional groups remains modest.

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