Artículo de revista
Growth of adecuate and small for gestational age very low birth weight infants Crecimiento en dos años de niños de muy bajo peso de nacimiento, adecuados y pequeños para la edad gestacional
Fecha
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Revista Chilena de Pediatria, Volumen 68, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 66-73
03704106
Autor
Patricia Mena,
Enrica Pittaluga,
Morcela Milad,
Ana María Fontanaz,
Angélica Alegría,
Institución
Resumen
Height, weight and head circumference growth palerns were recorded to 284 very low birth weight infants, 164 ooecucte [AGE) and 120 small (SGE) for gestational age, coming from medium-Sow income families and folloxved up along the first two years of life at Santiago, Chile, in order to identify early hints of future growth and nutritional states, T-e AEG infanrs had lower gestational age (28.92 ± 1.5 vs. 31 .86 ± 2.0 weeks, p< 0.05) and longer time under mechanical ventilation (5.01 ± 9.33 vs. 1.73 ± 4,84 days, p < 0.05) and oxygen therapy [15.2 ± 21 .8 vs. 6.72 ± 14.18 days, p < 0.05) than SGE. At 18 months of corrected age 5.2% of AGE and 15,4% of SGE infants had Z score for weight under -2 by NHCS standards. Both AGE and SGE infants showed higher weight Z scores, out of oropcrtion ro height increase, in the first six posnatal months. Thereafter proportional increases of weight and height Z scores were observed. SGE infants showed a catch up type of growth, which was also earlier (fi