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Somatic Growth in Infants Receiving Prolonged Caffeine Therapy
Author(s) -
LE GUENNEC J. C.,
SITRUK F.,
BREAULT C.,
BLACK R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1990.tb11330.x
Subject(s) - medicine , caffeine , head circumference , pediatrics , analysis of variance , birth weight , pregnancy , biology , genetics
.We have evaluated the longitudinal growth of 28 premature infants who had been treated by prolonged caffeine therapy (mean: 23.8 weeks). Routine follow‐up included at least 5 physical examinations with measurement of length, weight and head circumference at the beginning of caffeine therapy, at mid therapy, at the end of the therapy and at 3 and 6 months after therapy. The distribution of the infants on the growth curves according to weight, length and head circumference showed a regular increase in growth parameters. Analysis of variance was highly significant at p<0.0001. We conclude that long term caffeine treatment does not adversely influence growth parameters, at least during early infancy.