ArticlePediatric obesity2021
Weight for length measures may not accurately reflect adiposity in preterm infants born appropriate for gestational age during hospitalisation or after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit.
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- Postnatal Growth Assessment of the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infant.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Expected and Desirable Preterm and Small Infant Growth Patterns.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Predicting body fat percentage at 36 weeks of postmenstrual age in infants born preterm: A diagnostic accuracy study.JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2023Article
- Body composition measurement for the preterm neonate: using a clinical utility framework to translate research tools into clinical care.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Review
- Neonatal growth with fish oil or mixed oil lipid emulsions in intestinal failure associated liver disease.Intestinal Failure (New York, N.Y.)Article
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Abstract
backgroundWeight/length (W/L) indices are poor surrogates for adiposity in preterm infants born appropriate for gestational age (AGA) at birth, but whether the association subsequently improves is unknown.
objectiveTo determine if W/L indices accurately reflect adiposity in premature infants born AGA in later infancy.
methodsAssociations between W/L indices and fat mass, fat mass index and percent body fat (%BF) obtained via air displacement plethysmography (ADP) were examined in 260 preterm infants (majority born AGA) at 28 to 63 weeks' postmenstrual age (PMA). Accuracy of W/L indices as indicators of adiposity was assessed by proportion of variance explained (R
resultsBMI and W/L were most strongly associated with %BF but yielded poorly fitting models (maximum R
conclusionsW/L indices were not good indicators of adiposity in preterm infants from 28 to 63 weeks' PMA (born AGA) with all categories of W/L indices combined. Future research should examine whether results are similar in preterm infants born with disproportionate W/L or who experience disproportionate growth postnatally.
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