Analysis of physical development of newborns using the centile method

The objective of the work is to study the basic anthropometric indicators of newborns (2008 and 2012 years of birth) in Naberezhnye Chelny, the Republic of Tatarstan.Materials and Methods. The authors analysed 400 delivery records of newborns, including 100 boys and 100 girls for each year under investigation. They have copied the information about newborns (date of birth, sex, body length and body weight, head and chest circumferences, Apgar scores, complications ofpregnancy and child pathologies) and their mothers (age, education, place of living, gynecologic history, concomitant diseases). The authors also carried out a comparative analysis of individual anthropometric measurements of children using various centile tables.Results. Standard deviations were revealed both for individual and mean values of body length and weight, head and chest circumferences for different groups of children. Body weight of a newborn baby tended to decrease while comparing children born in 2008 and 2012...