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Preterm newborn's postnatal growth patterns: how to evaluate them

Author(s) -

Rita C. Silveira,

Renato S. Procianoy

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

jornal de pediatria

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1678-4782

pISSN - 0021-7557

DOI - 10.1016/j.jped.2018.10.006

Subject(s) - medicine , gestational age , pediatrics , appropriate for gestational age , growth curve (statistics) , gestation , small for gestational age , obstetrics , pregnancy , genetics , biology , economics , econometrics

There are several factors that influence the postnatal growth of preterm infants. It is crucial to define how to evaluate the growth rate of each preterm child and its individual trajectory, the type of growth curve, either with parameters of prescriptive curves for healthy preterm infants with no morbidities or, in the case of preterm infants and their "bundle of vulnerabilities", growth curves that may represent how they are actually growing, with the aim of directing appropriate nutritional care to each gestational age range.

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