| Body mass index and weight-for-length ratio references for infants born at 33-42 weeks gestation: A new tool for anthropometric assessment. | |
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PMID: 21524833 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The risk of childhood obesity, an increasingly prevalent problem worldwide, might be predictable by early body mass index measurements. This study sought to develop body mass index and weight-for-length ratio references for infants born at 33-42 weeks gestation and to validate these data against the growth curves of the World Health Organization Multicenter Growth Reference Study. METHODS: Data were collected from the Neonatal Registry of Rabin Medical Center for all healthy singleton babies born live at 33-42 weeks gestation. Crude and smoothed reference tables and graphs for body mass index and weight-for-length ratio by gestational age were created for males and females, separately. RESULTS: Birth weight, length, and body mass index percentiles for full-term neonates were similar to the World Health Organization study, reinforcing the generalizability of our reference charts for infants born at 33-42 weeks. Cutoff values for small for date (<5th, <10th percentile) and large for date (>85th, >95th percentile) infants differed across gestational ages in both pre-term and full-term infants. CONCLUSIONS: As body proportionality indexes provide an assessment of body mass and fatness relative to length, we suggest that BMI and Wt/L ratio percentiles be added to weight and length growth curves as a routine intrauterine growth assessment at birth. |
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Shmuel Davidson; Dafna Natan; Ilya Novikov; Nir Sokolover; Avi Erlich; Raanan Shamir |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-4-25 |
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Title: Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) Volume: - ISSN: 1532-1983 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Apr |
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Created Date: 2011-4-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8309603 Medline TA: Clin Nutr Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Neonatology, Helen Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva 49 100, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. |
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