Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST rR0xwuVA. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This study characterized fetal growth differences among control infants (n=276) and infants with d-transposition of the great arteries (TGA) (n=69), tetralogy of Fallot (n=66), hypoplastic left heart syndrome (n=51), and coarctation of the aorta (n=65), thus permitting assessment of competing theories about the relation between these cardiovascular malformations and fetal growth disturbance. Subjects were liveborn singletons without genetic or extra-cardiovascular structural abnormalities sampled from the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study. Multivariate analysis of covariance was performed : birth weight, birth length, newborn head circumference, and two nonlinear functions of these measures were regressed jointly on a diagnostic class variable and covariates. Differences in the vectors of dependent variable means across diagnostic groups were striking (p
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