ArticleArchives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition2003
Growth and body composition in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
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- Working group reports: evaluation of the evidence to support practice guidelines for nutritional care of preterm infants-the Pre-B Project.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- The role of nutrition in promoting growth in pre-term infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a prospective non-randomised interventional cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2014Trial
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- Retrospective case-control study of nutritional and respiratory status in children with type III esophageal atresia.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2026Observational
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- Association of Neonatal Morbidities and Postnatal Growth Faltering in Preterm Neonates.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association of Early Nutrition with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Severity and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lung Characteristics in Preterm Infants.Neonatology · 2025Article
- On diaphragmatic and peripheral muscle ultrasonography in the newborn.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
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- Evaluation of regional lung mass and growth in neonates with bronchopulmonary dysplasia using ultrashort echo time magnetic resonance imaging.Pediatric pulmonology · 2024Article
- Nutrition of Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia before and after Discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Linear growth is associated with successful respiratory support weaning in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Article
- Malnutrition, poor post-natal growth, intestinal dysbiosis and the developing lung.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Review
- Growth failure of very low birth weight infants during the first 3 years: A Korean neonatal network.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Comparison of physical activity and body composition in a cohort of children born extremely preterm or with extremely low birth weight to matched term-born controls: a follow-up study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2019Article
- Nutrition and Lung Growth.Nutrients · 2018Review
- Anthropometric trends from 1997 to 2012 in infants born at ⩽28 weeks' gestation or less.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare growth and body composition in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) with normal healthy term infants during the first year of life.
designTwenty nine preterm infants with BPD (mean (SD) gestational age 27.1 (1.6) weeks; birth weight 852 (173) g) were followed prospectively. Anthropometry and body composition determined by total body electrical conductivity were measured and compared with those of healthy term infants at the same post-term age.
resultsIn infants with BPD, the mean weight standard deviation scores (SD scores) 6 weeks after term were significantly lower (-1.44 and -2.68, boys and girls respectively) than in healthy term infants of the same age and did not improve during the first year. The mean length SD score was significantly lower in infants with BPD 6 weeks after term than in healthy term infants of the same age, and, although it improved significantly during the first year, the mean length SD score in girls with BPD was significantly below 0 12 months after term. In infants with BPD, the mean free fat mass (FFM) SD score and the mean total body fat (TBF) SD score at 6 weeks post-term age were significantly below 0. The mean FFM SD scores (-1.01 and -2.56, boys and girls respectively) and the mean TBF SD scores (-1.14 and -2.40, boys and girls respectively) 12 months after term were significantly lower than in healthy term infants of the same age.
conclusionsPreterm infants with BPD have impaired growth, with a deficit in TBF and FFM already 6 weeks after term; FFM and TBF remain low compared with healthy term infants during the first year of life. Nutritional intervention studies in infants with BPD are needed to evaluate if nutrition is the major determinant of growth and body composition or if this pattern of growth in preterm infants with BPD is the result of disturbed endocrine control.
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