OBJECTIVE: To compare the frequencies of @entity66 in those newborns classified according to a weight/length rate and those classified by the adequacy weight for gestational age. METHODS: A retrospective cross-sectional study by record assessment was carried out enclosing all the live newborns at Hospital Geral do Graja  , from September to December, 2009 (n =577) classified according to the rate weight/length and also to the adequacy weight for gestational age. The 10 and 90 percentiles of the weight/length distribution, now designated as "indices" were calculated leading to the following classification: low index, for newborns below 54.8 g/cm; high index, for those over 75.8 g/cm; and average index, for the remaining newborns. According to the adequacy weight for gestational age the newborns were designated as pre-term for gestational age; term small for gestational age; appropriate term and large term. In this sample there were no small and large pre-term or post-term newborns. @entity66 were related to the index and adequacy extracts by the   2 test for a contingency table. RESULTS: A significant association was found among low index, pre-term for gestational age newborns and term small for gestational age; between average index and appropriate for gestational age term newborns; and high index with large term appropriate for gestational age newborns (p< 0.001). @entity4053 (3.4%) was associated to both low and high indices, to appropriate for gestational age preterm newborns and to small for gestational age term newborns. @entity295 (3.1%) was associated to both low index and pre-term appropriate for gestational age newborns. The @entity649 (1.3%) was associated to low index and pre-term appropriate for gestational age newborns. Other @entity649 (3.8%) were associated to low and high indices but not to the adequacy for gestational age classification. @entity1087 (14.9%) was not associated to the studied classifications. Perinatal @entity1763 (12.6%) was associated to low index and pre-term newborns. CONCLUSION: The weight/length index may represent a contribution to the newborn risk classification being similar to that of the weight for gestational age adequacy, for the studied diseases.

Association of XXXX with weight/length ratio and the adequacy of weight for gestational age.

@entity295 :: ('MESH:D018805', 'Disease') :: ['Sepsis'] @entity1087 :: ('MESH:D007565', 'Disease') :: ['Jaundice'] @entity66 :: ('MESH:D004194', 'Disease') :: ['newborn diseases', 'Major diseases'] @entity649 :: ('MESH:D012128', 'Disease') :: ['respiratory distress syndromes', 'respiratory distress syndrome'] @entity4053 :: ('MESH:D007003', 'Disease') :: ['Hypoglycemia'] @entity1763 :: ('MESH:D001237', 'Disease') :: ['asphyxia']
@entity66 :: (MESH:D004194,Disease) :: ['newborn diseases']
