ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2021
Weight, length, and head circumference at 36 weeks are not predictive of later cognitive impairment in very preterm infants.
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- Fenton Third-Generation Growth Charts of Preterm Infants Without Abnormal Fetal Growth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
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- Categorizing weight growth of infants born before 32 weeks' gestation using the 2023 postnatal growth charts for preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Racial and ethnic disparities in postnatal growth of infants born before 30 weeks of gestation.Research square · 2025Article
- Preterm growth assessment: the latest findings on age correction.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Postnatal Growth Assessment of the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infant.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Association of Neonatal Morbidities and Postnatal Growth Faltering in Preterm Neonates.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Risk Assessment of Cognitive Impairment at 2 Years of Age in Infants Born Extremely Preterm Using the INTERGROWTH-21st Growth Standards.The Journal of pediatrics · 2024Observational
- Postnatal growth and neurodevelopment at 2 years' corrected age in extremely low birthweight infants.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Expected and Desirable Preterm and Small Infant Growth Patterns.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Association between preterm infant size at 1 year and ADHD later in life: data from 1993 and 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohorts.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Growth During Infancy After Extremely Preterm Birth: Associations with Later Neurodevelopmental and Health Outcomes.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Extrauterine Growth Restriction in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Concordance Between Fenton 2013 and INTERGROWTH-21Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess diagnostic accuracy of 36-week anthropometric weight, length, and head circumference <10th and <3rd percentiles to predict preterm infant cognitive impairment. STUDY
designCohort study of 898 preterm <30-week very-low-birth weight (<1500 g) infants. Anthropometric measures' accuracy to predict cognitive impairment (Bayley-III Cognitive Composite score) <80, 21-months corrected age (CA) and Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence Quotient (intellectual outcomes) <70, 36-months CA, were determined using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.
resultThirty-six-week weight, length or head circumference <10th or <3rd percentile did not predict cognitive impairment; areas under ROC curves were <0.6. Sensitivities and specificities for 10th and 3rd percentile cut points were all poor, with most not exceeding 70%, whether the Fenton 2013 or INTERGROWTH 2015 growth charts were used. Brain injury and low maternal education were better predictors of cognitive impairment.
conclusionPreterm infant 36-week anthropometric measurements are not accurate predictors of cognitive impairment.
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