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ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
COCKINGTON RA
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1996.tb00975.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , abdominal pain , child health , acute pain , pediatrics , family medicine , library science , surgery , anesthesia , computer science
We thank Professor Colditz for his letter suggesting a possible relationship between nutrition, growth failure and intellectual outcome in extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants. In our paper, we focused on specific perinatal variables reliably recorded for study purposes during the infant’s hospital course. A simple Chi-squared analysis of neurological outcomes (intellectual impairment, cerebral palsy) according to whether infants were appropriate or small for gestational age at birth was included in our paper and did not reveal any significant differences. This clinic has previously published on the topic of intrauterine and postnatal growth and neurodevelopmental outcome.’ We are currently re-examining these relationships in a cohort of ELBW infants at 2 years corrected age. Professor Colditz has raised an important issue that requires further study.