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IJG-08416; No of Pages 5 International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics journal homepage: www. else vi er. com/ locate /ijgo CLINICAL ARTICLE Patterns of fetal growth in an Asian Indian cohort in the USA☆ Barbara V. Parilla a,⁎, Colin McCulloch a, Suela Sulo b, Leticia Curran a, Diana McSherry c a Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, USA b The James R. Helen D. Russell Institute for Research Innovation, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, USA c Digisonics, Houston, TX, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Objective: To determine whether a greater proportion of fetuses in an Asian Indian cohort are classified as small Received 9 December 2014 for gestational age than would be expected from a normally distributed population. Methods: A retrospective Received in revised form 23 April 2015 analysis of fetal growth pattern and neonatal outcome was conducted among Asian Indian women who were referred Accepted 20 July 2015 to a maternal–fetal medicine center in Park Ridge, IL, USA, for evaluation of fetal growth between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2013. The primary outcome was an abdominal circumference or estimated weight of lower than the Keywords: 10th percentile for gestational age according to the Hadlock formula. Results: Overall, 207 women and