BACKGROUND Preterm small for gestational age (SGA) infants may be at risk for increased adiposity, especially when experiencing rapid postnatal weight gain. Data on the dynamic features of body weight and fat mass (FM) gain that occurs early in life is scarce. We investigated the postnatal weight and FM gain during the first five months after term in a cohort of preterm infants. METHODOLOGY/P...

Nutritional assessment of patients with chronic kidney disease is a vital function of health care providers. Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) is a tool that uses 5 components of a medical history (weight change, dietary intake, gastrointestinal symptoms, functional capacity, disease and its relation to nutritional requirements) and 3 components of a brief physical examination (signs of fat an...

BACKGROUND Although there is convincing evidence for the association between small for gestational age (SGA) and socioeconomic status (SES), it is not known to what extent explanatory factors contribute to this association. AIM To examine to what extent risk factors could explain educational inequalities in SGA. STUDY DESIGN In this study fully completed data were available for 3793 pregnan...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to determine the utility of handgrip dynamometry (HGD) in predicting short term mortality and complications in alcoholic liver disease. METHODS Patients with alcoholic liver disease were included and nutritional assessment was done using the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), HGD and other conventional parameters. Mortality rates and complications were com...

BACKGROUND Low birth weight (LBW) can result from prematurity or intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and result in small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants. Prematurity and IUGR may have different etiologies and consequences. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to analyze seasonal patterns of prematurity and SGA in a rural African community and to compare them against variations in nutritional and ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of fetal biometry at 30-34 weeks' gestation in the prediction of delivery of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonates, in the absence of pre-eclampsia (PE). METHODS This was a screening study in 30 849 singleton pregnancies at 30-34 weeks' gestation, comprising 1727 that delivered SGA neonates with a birth weight < 5(th) percentile and 29 122 cases unaffecte...

The objective of this study was to compare the outcomes at 5 years of age of SGA and AGA children born < 28 weeks of gestation. The method used was a longitudinal follow-up of a cohort of 37 dyads of SGA and AGA infants matched by gestational age (GA), gender, and date of delivery. Mean GA was 26+/-1.2 weeks, and BW was 638+/-77 g for SGA and 833+/-134 g for AGA (P < 0.0001). The SGA infants re...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between fetal growth between first and early second trimester ultrasound scan and the risk of severe small for gestational age (SGA) birth. METHODS This cohort study included 69 550 singleton pregnancies with first trimester dating and an early second trimester growth scan in Stockholm and Gotland Counties, Sweden between 2008 and 2014. Exposure was d...

Wharton's jelly-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) isolated from newborns with intrauterine fetal growth restriction were previously shown to exert anabolic features including insulin hypersensitivity. Here, we extend these observations and demonstrate that MSCs from small for gestational age (SGA) individuals have decreased mitochondrial oxygen consumption rates. Comparing normally grown an...

Evaluation of obstetric and neonatal outcomes in a Brazilian retrospective cohort pregnancies after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), regarding the 2009 Institute Medicine (IOM) recommendations about gestational weight gain (GWG) RYGB-conception interval. Additionally, search for intrapopulation risk factors small age (SGA) offspring mental health assessments. Retrospective analysis 132 singleto...