[Standards for determining the physical development of newborn children of Roma origin in city of Plovdiv].
In a complex set of factors affecting the physical development plays an important role and ethnicity. Purpose of the study was the development of standards for assessing the physical development of newborn children from the Roma ethnos. The information is registered in the Obstetric Clinic of Medical University Plovdiv and includes 338 newborns Roma children. Norms are made using one of the most accurate methods for individual assessment--method of percentile. The size of the sample gives reason to believe that the norms for evaluation of height, body mass and size of the head and breasts of newborn children of Roma origin are stable and statistically reliable and can be used by gynecologists, micro-pediatricians to assess physical development of children in the next 80-10 years.