ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2007
Failure to thrive: the prevalence and concurrence of anthropometric criteria in a general infant population.
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- Canadian Nationwide Survey on Pediatric Malnutrition Management in Tertiary Hospitals.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Growth failure of very low birth weight infants during the first 3 years: A Korean neonatal network.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Failure to Thrive in the Outpatient Clinic: A New Insight.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Effect of nutritional supplement formula on catch-up growth in young children with nonorganic faltering growth: a prospective multicenter study.Nutrition research and practice · 2020Article
- May Failure to Thrive in Infants Be a Clinical Marker for the Early Diagnosis of Cow's Milk Allergy?Nutrients · 2020Article
- Limitations of Weight Velocity Analysis by Commercial Computer Program Growth Analyser Viewer Edition.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2019Article
- Pediatric Condition Falsification Misdiagnosed by Misjudged Weight Growth from the Curve of Measured Weights.The American journal of case reports · 2018Article
- Race and Sex Differences of Long-Term Blood Pressure Profiles From Childhood and Adult Hypertension: The Bogalusa Heart Study.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2017Article
- Forensic aspects of starvation.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2016Article
- Failure to thrive in babies and toddlers.Singapore medical journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundFailure to thrive (FTT) in early childhood is associated with subsequent developmental delay and is recognised to reflect relative undernutrition. Although the concept of FTT is widely used, no consensus exists regarding a specific definition, and it is unclear to what extent different anthropometric definitions concur.
objectiveTo compare the prevalence and concurrence of different anthropometric criteria for FTT and test the sensitivity and positive predictive values of these in detecting children with "significant undernutrition", defined as the combination of slow conditional weight gain and low body mass index (BMI).
methodsSeven criteria of FTT, including low weight for age, low BMI, low conditional weight gain and Waterlow's criterion for wasting, were applied to a birth cohort of 6090 Danish infants. The criteria were compared in two age groups: 2-6 and 6-11 months of life.
results27% of infants met one or more criteria in at least one of the two age groups. The concurrence among the criteria was generally poor, with most children identified by only one criterion. Positive predictive values of different criteria ranged from 1% to 58%. Most single criteria identified either less than half the cases of significant undernutrition (found in 3%) or included far too many, thus having a low positive predictive value. Children with low weight for height tended to be relatively tall.
conclusionsNo single measurement on its own seems to be adequate for identifying nutritional growth delay. Further longitudinal population studies are needed to investigate the discriminating power of different criteria in detecting significant undernutrition and subsequent outcomes.
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