Calculating postnatal growth velocity in very low birth weight (VLBW) premature infants | Zendy

Aloka L. Patel | Zendy; J L Engstrom | Zendy; P P Meier | Zendy; Briana J. Jegier | Zendy; Robert E. Kimura | Zendy

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Calculating postnatal growth velocity in very low birth weight (VLBW) premature infants

Author(s) -

Aloka L. Patel,

J L Engstrom,

P P Meier,

Briana J. Jegier,

Robert E. Kimura

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of perinatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1476-5543

pISSN - 0743-8346

DOI - 10.1038/jp.2009.55

Subject(s) - medicine , obstetrics , neonatology , low birth weight , gestational age , birth weight , pediatrics , pregnancy , biology , genetics

Currently, there is no standardized approach to the calculation of growth velocity (GV; g kg (-1) day(-1)) in hospitalized very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Thus, differing methods are used to estimate GV, resulting in different medical centers and studies reporting growth results that are difficult to compare. The objective of this study was to compare actual GV calculated from infant daily weights during hospitalization in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with estimated GV using two mathematical models that have been shown earlier to provide good estimated GVs in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants: an exponential model (EM) and a 2-Point model (2-PM).

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