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Postnatal growth of children born small for gestational age
Author(s) -
AlbertssonWikland K.,
Karlberg J.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
acta paediatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1997.tb18413.x
Subject(s) - small for gestational age , medicine , gestational age , singleton , pediatrics , short stature , population , appropriate for gestational age , pregnancy , genetics , environmental health , biology
A large, population‐based representative study ( n = 3656) has shown that the vast majority of healthy, full‐term, singleton infants born small for gestational age (SGA) achieve catch‐up growth during the first 2 years of life. Indeed, most of the increase in height SDS occurs by 2 months of age. Children born SGA who do not show postnatal catch‐up growth and so remain short at 2 years of age, have a higher risk of short stature (< −2 SDS) in later life, with a relative risk at 18 years of age of 5.2 if born light and of 7.1 if born short. □ Small for gestational age, postnatal growth, catch‐up growth, final height, population study