ArticlePloS one2019
Body composition and growth in full-term small for gestational age and large for gestational age Swedish infants assessed with air displacement plethysmography at birth and at 3-4 months of age.
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- Body Composition of Infants Born with Intrauterine Growth Restriction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
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- Maternal plasma lipid levels across pregnancy and the risks of small-for-gestational age and low birth weight: a cohort study from rural Gambia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Trial
- Weight changes and variability in the first week of life: associations with mortality in extremely preterm newborns.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- The efficacy of nebulized budesonide and ambroxol hydrochloride in treating pediatric community-acquired pneumonia and their impact on clinical characteristics and inflammatory markers.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
- Human milk-derived versus bovine milk-derived fortifier use in very low birth weight infants: growth and vitamin D status.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Serial head circumference measurements should be used to classify congenital microcephaly.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- The association of intrauterine and postnatal growth patterns and nutritional status with toddler body composition.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Childhood obesity and adverse cardiometabolic risk in large for gestational age infants and potential early preventive strategies: a narrative review.Pediatric research · 2022Review
- Body Composition and "Catch-Up" Fat Growth in Healthy Small for Gestational Age Preterm Infants and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Maternal excess adiposity and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D < 50 nmol/L are associated with elevated whole body fat mass in healthy breastfed neonates.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Preterm birth and metabolic implications on later life: A narrative review focused on body composition.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
- Letter to the Editor: Nutritional thrift can be associated with precocious puberty and premature adrenarche in children born small for gestational age.Clinical pediatric endocrinology : case reports and clinical investigations : official journal of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundBeing born small for gestational age (SGA) or large for gestational age (LGA) has short and long term metabolic consequences. There is a growing interest in the extent to which body composition, both in the short and the long term, differs in infants born at the extremes of these birth weights.
methodsBody composition in 25 SGA and 25 LGA infants were assessed during the first days of life and at 3-4 months of age using air displacement plethysmography.
resultsSGA infants had significantly lower body fat (%) at birth compared to LGA infants. SGA infants increased their body weight and length at a significantly higher rate between birth and 3-4 months than LGA infants. Fat mass (g) in SGA infants increased 23 times between birth and 3-4 months of age compared to 2.8 times for LGA infants. At 3-4 months of age LGA infants reached a threshold in body fat (%) while SGA infants were still gaining body fat (%).
conclusionSeveral significant differences have been identified between SGA and LGA infants, indicating that the effects of intrauterine life continues to play an important role in body composition and growth during the first 3-4 months of life.
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