GROWTH IN FULL-TERM SMALL-FOR-GESTATIONAL-AGE INFANTS - FROM BIRTH TO FINAL HEIGHT
GROWTH IN FULL-TERM SMALL-FOR-GESTATIONAL-AGE INFANTS - FROM BIRTH TO FINAL HEIGHT
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DOI:
10.1203/00006450-199511000-00017
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发表时间:
1995-11-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
ALBERTSSONWIKLAND, K
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作者:
KARLBERG, J;ALBERTSSONWIKLAND, K
Intrauterine growth retardation, or being small for gestational age (SGA), has a life-long impact on a fetus's potential for development and survival. The incidence and relative risk of short stature in children born SGA were studied using a Swedish healthy full-term (37-43 wk of gestation) singleton birth cohort (n = 3650) from Goteborg, followed from birth to final height at about 18 y of age. Most infants, defined as SGA on the basis of a birth length less than -2 standard deviation scores (SDS) below the mean (SGA, infants), showed catch-up growth during the first 6 mo after birth, and by 1 y only 13.4% of the SGA, infants were below -2 SDS in height. This percentage decreased further during childhood to reach a value of 7.9% at 18 y of age. Although most SGA, infants have catch-up growth in early life, those who do not constitute 21% of short, prepubertal children. At 18 y of age, 22% of the total short population were short at birth (86%) of ''healthy'' full-term singleton SGA(L) infants will achieve catch-up in height during the first 6-12 mo of life, and that this is almost independent of whether birth weight or birth length is used to define SGA. Of the remaining, non-catch-up SGA infants, about 50% remain short in final height, and thus constitute a high risk group for persistent short stature.