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[Read eLetters] Incorrect gestational age designation
Akshaya Vachharajani   (10 January 2009)

Incorrect gestational age designation 10 January 2009
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Akshaya Vachharajani,
Neonatologist
Washington University in St.Louis

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Re: Incorrect gestational age designation

vachharajani{at}kids.wustl.edu Akshaya Vachharajani

Dear Sir The article defines more than or equal to 36 weeks as term gestation. NIH consensus statement states that more than 36 and 6 /7 weeks of completed gestation is late preterm gestation.

(Late-Preterm" Infants: A Population at Risk William A. Engle, MD, Kay M. Tomashek, MD, Carol Wallman, MSN and the Committee on Fetus and Newborn) PEDIATRICS Vol. 120 No. 6 December 2007, pp. 1390-1401 (doi:10.1542/peds.2007-2952)

Is the author's definition arbitrary ?

Sincerely Akshaya Vachharajani

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