Changes in birth weight, birth length and head circumference of Hungarian children in the county Baranya between 1968 and 1979-1981.

Possible secular changes of newborn's body measurements were investigated in a cross-sectional growth study in the County Baranya (South Hungary) in 1979-1981. The total sample includes 2,130 children. The results were compared with those obtained by Fekete et al.

Intrauterine weight retardation and the concomitant length retardation: a statistical analysis of anthropometric data.

In 237 low birth weight for gestational age term infants (birth weight less than or equal to 10th percentile; gestational age less than or equal to 37 wk) percentage deviations of birth weight and crown-heel length for gestational age were correlated (a) in a series of linear regressions of three subsequent groups formed according to the magnitude of weight retardation (b) in the pooled material by non-liner regression. Linear regressions yielded equivocal results as to the existence of concomitant length retardation (no correlation in group 1, significant correlation in group 2 and 3). The significant non-linear correlation (i = 0.