SOME BIOLOGICAL MEASURMENTS OF NEWBORNS IN HAMADAN (STATURE, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE)

Abstract

Crown to heel, crown to rump, weight, gead circumference of normal newborns (m=792) were measured in a hospital in Hamadan, Iran during two months, in spring, 1995. The mean C.H. for males was 48.2 cm. and for females 47.5 cm. ; the mean C.R. for males was 33.3 cm and for females 32.73 cm.; the mean weight for males was 3.30 kg and for females 2.29 kg and finally the mean head circumference for males was 35.24 cm. and for females 34.73 cm. Data show the sizes in a sample of Hamadanian normal newborns. In most of them skewness tended to minimum (negative skewness). Finally the boys and girls were compared statistically according to sizes which were obtained. The results were significant (p=0.01).