ArticleScientific reports2021
The association of low body mass index with neonatal morbidities in preterm infants.
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- Dynamic Metabolic Profiling of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Differentiates Class A1 and Class A2.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2026Article
- The impact of pre-pregnancy body mass index and maternal diseases on the offspring outcomes in preterm infants < 32 weeks: five-year retrospective mediation analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- The Ratio of Body Weight/Length Squared Relates to Low Serum α-Tocopherol in Preterm Infants.Cureus · 2024Article
- The association between BMI trajectories and bronchopulmonary dysplasia among very preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Extremely Premature Infants: A Scoping Review for Identifying Risk Factors.Biomedicines · 2023Article
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Abstract
Little is known about the association between body proportionality at birth and neonatal outcomes in preterm infants. Body mass index (BMI) is one of the weigh-for-length ratios that represent body proportionality. The objective of this study was to examine whether BMI at birth affects neonatal outcomes in preterm infants. We assessed 3115 preterm (< 30 weeks), very low birth weight (< 1500 g) infants born between January 2013 and December 2016 and registered in the Korean Neonatal Network database. Using gender-specific BMI for gestational age curves, z-scores of BMI at birth were calculated. Low-, normal-, and high-BMI were defined as BMI z-scores of less than - 1, from - 1 to 1, and greater than 1, respectively. Neonatal morbidities and mortality in low- and high-BMI groups were compared to those in normal-BMI group. The low-BMI group had an increased risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, bronchopulmonary dysplasia or death, and necrotizing enterocolitis after adjusting for baseline characteristics and the birth weight z-score. High-BMI group had comparable neonatal outcomes to those of normal-BMI group. Low BMI at birth was associated with an increased risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and necrotizing enterocolitis, whereas High BMI at birth was not associated with adverse neonatal outcomes.
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