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- Published on: 25 August 2005Postnatal weight loss in term infants: what is "normal" and do growth charts allow for it?Show More
Dear Editor,
In their study Drs Wright and Parkinson report that breast fed infants showed less postnatal weight gain compared to formula-fed infants and were significantly more likely to lose more than 10% of their birth weight.[1] They comment that this trend was no longer significant after adjustment for birth weight, which was significantly higher in breast fed infants. I wonder if adjusting for birthweight is act...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 August 2005Postnatal weight loss in term infants: to correct for birthweight or not.Show More
Dear Editor,
In their study Drs Wright and Parkinson report that breast fed infants showed less postnatal weight gain compared to formula-fed infants and were significantly more likely to lose more than 10% of their birth weight. [1] They comment that this trend was no longer significant after adjustment for birth weight, which was significantly higher in breast fed infants. I wonder if adjusting for birthweigh...
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None declared. - Published on: 30 June 2004Improving the neonatal weight chartShow More
Dear Editor
Wright and Parkinson show that by 5 days post-partum, weight is on average 50g less than at birth. This highlights a deficiency of current growth charts, which display weight increasing steadily with age. On the British 1990 chart for example, weight at 5 days is about 150g greater than at birth, a net discrepancy of 200g or two-thirds of a centile channel.
The obvious solution, to redraw...
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