Extreme Premature Small For Gestational Age Infants Have Appropriate Catch-Up Growth At Term Equivalence Compared With Extreme Premature Appropriate For Gestational Age Infants

Ng, Sze May; Pintus, Donatella; Turner, Mark A.

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“…Postnatal growth is divided into the infancy, childhood, and adolescent periods, and growth failure in any of these periods increases the possibility of short stature in adulthood [ 22 , 23 ]. Growth in early childhood, particularly during the 24 months after birth, has an impact on growth in later childhood and puberty [ 24 ], ultimately leading to final adult height.…”

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Growth patterns over 2 years after birth according to birth weight and length percentiles in children born preterm

Kim

Choi

Lee

et al. 2020

Ann Pediatr Endocrinol Metab

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Purpose: To analyze growth patterns over 2 years after birth according to preterm infant birth weight and length percentiles. Methods: Anthropometric measurements of 82 preterm infants were retrospectively reviewed. Preterm infants with birth weight or length below the 10th percentile were classified as small for gestational age (SGA) (n=19) and those between the 10th and 89th percentile as appropriate for gestational age (AGA) (n=63). The association between the length standard deviation score (SDS) at 2 years of corrected age and clinical factors were analyzed. Results: The length SDS of the SGA group was significantly increased at 6 months (-1.30±1.71) and 24 months (-0.97±1.06) of corrected age. The length SDS was lower in the SGA group than those in the AGA group at 6 months (-1.30±1.71 vs.-0.25±1.15, P=0.004), 18 months (-0.97±1.39 vs.-0.03±1.29, P=0.015), and 24 months (-0.97±1.06 vs.-0.29±1.12, P=0.022,). The percentage of children with a length SDS of <-2 (growth failure) at 24 months was 15.8% in the SGA group and 4.8% in the AGA group (P=0.108). Multiple linear regression analysis demonstrated that length at 24 months of corrected age was negatively correlated with birth length below the 10th percentile (coefficient β=-0.91, P=0.001) and duration of stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) (coefficient β=-0.01, P=0.001). Conclusion: Despite the fact that catch-up growth occurs during the early period of infancy in a large portion of preterm SGA infants, a significant portion of these infants show growth failure at 24 months of age. Growth over 2 years after birth is affected by birth length and duration of stay in the NICU in preterm children.

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Growth patterns over 2 years after birth according to birth weight and length percentiles in children born preterm

Kim

Choi

Lee

et al. 2020

Ann Pediatr Endocrinol Metab

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“…They tend to have a lower risk for insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease, as long as they receive a restricted food supply in later life as in their prenatal period (1,2,3,4). Ng et al (5) reported that extremely premature SGA infants achieved catch up growth with postnatal nutrition, but they tend to have a greater risk of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary artery disease because of nutritional thrift.…”

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Catch-up Growth at Term Equivalence in Extremely Premature Small for Gestational Age Infants Compared with Extremely Premature Appropriate for Gestational Age Infants

Korkmaz¹

2019

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Extreme Premature Small For Gestational Age Infants Have Appropriate Catch-Up Growth At Term Equivalence Compared With Extreme Premature Appropriate For Gestational Age Infants

Abstract: Our study shows that extreme premature SGA infants have appropriate catch up growth by the time they reach term equivalence suggesting that postnatal nutrition and care are important determinants of catch-up growth in SGA infants.

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Growth patterns over 2 years after birth according to birth weight and length percentiles in children born preterm

Growth patterns over 2 years after birth according to birth weight and length percentiles in children born preterm

Catch-up Growth at Term Equivalence in Extremely Premature Small for Gestational Age Infants Compared with Extremely Premature Appropriate for Gestational Age Infants

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