Muscularity and fatness of infants and young children born small- or large-for-gestational-age
Muscularity and fatness of infants and young children born small- or large-for-gestational-age
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DOI:
10.1542/peds.102.5.e60
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发表时间:
1998-11-01
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8
通讯作者:
Davis, WW
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作者:
Hediger, ML;Overpeck, MD;Davis, WW
Objective. There is growing interest in the extent to which body composition, both short- and long-term, differs in infants and children born at the extremes of birth weight. This is because a growing number of studies have linked low birth weight and fetal growth restriction to the chronic diseases in adulthood that often are obesity-related, and there is also evidence to suggest that heavy infants may be at increased risk for obesity in later life, again with the attendant obesity-related chronic diseases. Our objective was to compare anthropometric indices of body composition of infants and young children born small-for-gestational-age (SGA,