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ArticlePediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2010

Body size in children with chronic kidney disease after gastrostomy tube feeding.

Julianna L Sienna, Rola Saqan, Jun Chuan Teh, Michelle L Frieling, Donna Secker, Vivian Cornelius, Denis F Geary

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Article in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Associations Between Weight Loss, Kidney Function Decline, and Risk of ESRD in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Cohort Study.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2018
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  12. Association of Body Mass Index with Patient-Centered Outcomes in Children with ESRD.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2016
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  18. Wasting in chronic kidney disease.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Julianna L SiennaDivision of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Rola Saqan
Jun Chuan Teh
Michelle L Frieling
Donna Secker
Vivian Cornelius
Denis F Geary
SickKids Foundation · CAUniversity of Toronto · CAHospital for Sick Children · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outcome body size of gastrostomy tube (g-tube)-fed children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) was investigated. CKD patients, stages 2-5, who had a g-tube inserted and removed between 1985 and 2007 were retrospectively reviewed (n=20) for anthropometrics, lab values, and steroid use from insertion to latest date. CKD patients never having had a g-tube placed (n=82) acted as the comparison population with similar data collection at start and end of the latest 5-year period. Body mass index (BMI)-for-age, weight (Wt)-for-age, and height (Ht)-for-age z scores were calculated and compared between groups. Median age at insertion and duration of g-tube treatment was 1.7 years (range 0.9-15.6), and 2.9 years (range 0.9-11.8), respectively. There was a significant increase in Wt- (p<0.01), and BMI-for-age (p<0.03) z score, but not for Ht-for-age between insertion and removal for subjects. There were no significant differences in Ht-, Wt-, or BMI-for-age z scores, from removal to 5 years post-removal. In the comparison population, there were no significant differences in Ht-, Wt-, or BMI-for-age z scores over the 5-year period. Approximately 36% of the non-tube-fed comparison population and 50% of the tube-fed subjects were overweight or obese at the most recent evaluation. In both subjects and the comparison group, overweight and obesity is associated with transplant status and steroid use. G-tube feeding is an effective method for achieving catch-up weight and moderate height gain in pediatric CKD patients, and does not apparently predispose patients to obesity after removal; however, overweight and obesity may pose problems to children with CKD whether or not they are tube fed.

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Body SizeAdolescentBody Mass IndexChildChild, PreschoolEnteral NutritionFemaleGastrostomyHumansInfantKidney Failure, ChronicMale

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PMID20668887
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