BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy seems to be more common in term babies whose birthweight is low for their gestational age at delivery, but past analyses have been hampered by small datasets and Z-score calculation methods. METHODS We compared data from ten European registers for 4503 singleton children with cerebral palsy born between 1976 and 1990 with the number of births in each study population...

Introduction Low birth weight (LBW) is the most common cause of neonatal death in developing countries. The objective of our study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with low birth weight in Ardabil, Iranfrom 2010 to 2011.Methods In a case–control study all live newborns were weighted without clothing using a standard calibrated scale. Gestational age was calculated usi...

CONTEXT The prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) among children and adolescents in the United States appeared to plateau between 1999 and 2006. OBJECTIVES To provide the most recent estimates of high BMI among children and adolescents and high weight for recumbent length among infants and toddlers and to analyze trends in prevalence between 1999 and 2008. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPAN...

background: the association between snacking patterns, sleep hours, and physical activity with growth status and appetite of preschool children was investigated. methods: sixty three children aged 3-7 years with low appetite and weight for age ratio below the 25th percentile were enrolled from those referring to nader kazemi polyclinic in shiraz. information regarding the parents’ education, sl...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of comprehensive dental rehabilitation on the percentile weight and percentile growth velocity of children with early childhood caries (ECC). METHODS The percentile weight categories of children with noncontributory medical histories and ECC were compared to caries free comparison patients, before and after comprehensive dental tre...

OBJECTIVE To describe growth and clinical evolution of very low birth weight infants fed during hospital stay with milk from a human milk bank according to the caloric-protein value. METHOD Forty very low birth weight infants were included: 10 were fed milk from their own mothers (GI), and 30 were fed human milk bank > 700 cal/L and 2 g/dL of protein. Growth curves were adjusted using nonline...

OBJECTIVE To determine the magnitude of the growth retardation in Dutch monozygotic and dizygotic twins during infancy in comparison with the Dutch reference growth charts for general population infants from 1997 and to construct reference growth charts for twins. DESIGN Descriptive. METHOD The growth of twins was studied using longitudinal data on over 4000 Dutch twin pairs from birth unti...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of prophylaxis using low-dose non-fractioned heparin and aspirin in the prevention of intrauterine growth restriction and low birth weights in patients suffering from antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. Intrauterine growth retardation and birth weights of 34 gestations involving 28 women with histories of multiple miscarriages and elevated anti...

Purpose Small for gestational age (SGA) is confusingly defined as birth weight (BW) either below 3rd percentile or 10th percentile for infants. This study aimed to compare postnatal catch-up growth between SGA groups according to different definitions. Methods Data of 129 infants born with BW below the 10th percentile and admitted to Korea University Anam Hospital and Ansan Hospital were retr...

Nutrient-enriched milk has been advocated to enhance premature infants'growth and early nutritional intervention is effective for growth failure in very low birth weight infants (VLBWI). We studied the 3-yr-old physical growth of VLBWI who received nutrient enriched diets in the early neonatal period. VLBWI, who were born in 1996, received nutrient enriched milk around 1 mo of age. By contrast,...