| Autor: |
Man, Evelyn B., Adelman, Maurice, Jones, Walter S., Lord, Robert M. |
| Zdroj: |
American Journal of Diseases of Children; April 1970, Vol. 119 Issue: 4 p298-307, 10p |
| Abstrakt: |
Serum thyroxine-like iodine compounds (BEI) are essential for normal central nervous system development, but thyroid function tests of full-term and of low-birth-weight infants have not been defined through 18 postnatal months. For 49 full-term infants (normal BEI through five postnatal days 7.2μg to 15.2μg per 100 ml), median and mean BEI from two to six postnatal months were 6.2 ± 0.91 and from 6 to 18 months 5.8μg ± 0.87μg per 100 ml, significantly higher BEI values than for adults. Differences between BEI means of low-birth-weight infants born before and after 34 gestational weeks and of full-term infants were significant at the 0.001 level. Fifteen low-birth-weight infants with BEI determinations until 19 months were examined developmentally; nine, classified normal, appeared to have increasing BEI; six, classified suspect or abnormal, had low or borderline BEI. |
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