Body mass index and weight-for-length ratio references for infants born at 33-42 weeks gestation: a new tool for anthropometric assessment
| Autor: | Nir Sokolover, Avi Erlich, Dafna Natan, Shmuel Davidson, Ilya Novikov, Raanan Shamir |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Percentile Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Cross-sectional study Birth weight Gestational Age Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Childhood obesity Body Mass Index Fetal Macrosomia Reference Values medicine Birth Weight Body Size Humans Registries Israel Sex Characteristics Nutrition and Dietetics Fetal Growth Retardation Anthropometry business.industry Infant Newborn Gestational age medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Infant Small for Gestational Age Small for gestational age Premature Birth Female business Body mass index Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland). 30(5) |
| ISSN: | 1532-1983 |
| Popis: | Summary 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 ( 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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