Intrauterine and fetal growth standards for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region

ABSTRACT

As there are no standard growth charts for Arabs, we have calculated birth weight, length and head circumference centile standards for boys and girls between 24 and 42 weeks gestation from 9028 [27.6% of total births in Riyadh] singleton Saudi live births in four different hospitals in Riyadh. To the best of our knowledge these are the first growth standards which are truly representative of the Saudi and perhaps Arab live borns and we recommend that they should be used in preference to the 'Western' standards used at present