Postdischarge Growth and Development in a Predominantly Hispanic, Very Low Birth Weight Population

Abstract

Very low birth weight infants exhibited growth patterns that coincided with developmental progress in the first 3 years of life. Birth at gestational age of <or=26 weeks was associated with greatest risk for developmental impairment, whereas failure to thrive and microcephaly increased neurodevelopmental impairment risk regardless of gestational age.

Fractal-dimension analysis detects cerebral changes in preterm infants with and without intrauterine growth restriction

“…As both preterm groups were comparable in neonatal morbidity, NICU nutritional management (and together to the third group with the breast milk intake), other causes such as nutritional, environmental, genetic (Powers et al, 2008) and post-natal growth factors (Fattal-Valeski et al, 2009) should be considered to explain the developmental differences in the IUGR group. In this regard, we found a characteristic pattern of poor weight, length and HC gain in the first year of life in preterm IUGR infants.…”

Maternal Practices That Influence Hispanic Infants' Health and Cognitive Growth

“…[3][4][5] The causal pathway linking healthy prenatal practices and robust births by immigrant mothers seems to weaken for latergeneration Hispanic mothers. 6,7 Beyond the benefits of the epidemiological paradox for newborns, little is known about whether these benefits persist in health and cognitive domains during infancy. Social factors related to maternal practices and family poverty, especially for immigrant populations, may come to outweigh the biological advantages resulting from healthy births.…”

Evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age

“…It had an improvement until 30 months of age while growth disorder in neonates whose gestational age was ≤26 weeks was constant until the age of 3 years. [9] In the present study, growth pattern of subjects was investigated in a cross-section design, and contrary to Powers’ study, the subjects were evaluated ignoring their gestational age, so the results have the less predictive value which can be considered as a limitation of the present study.…”

“…In study of Power et al ., mean score of motor development in VLBW children with gestational age of ≥27 weeks was low in their infancy period while it improved at the age of 18 months, meanwhile in children with gestational age of ≤26 weeks, the developmental delay persisted until the age of 3 years. [9] Gutbrod et al ., investigated the effects of small for gestational age (SGA) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants on growth and development until the fifth year of life, and showed that developmental test results were similar for the SGA and AGA-BW groups at 5 and 20 months. [13]…”