PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Supratik Chakraborty
AU  - Desaline Veronica Joseph
AU  - Michael John Gordon Bankart
AU  - Stewart A Petersen
AU  - Michael P Wailoo
TI  - Fetal growth restriction: relation to growth and obesity at the age of 9 years
AID  - 10.1136/adc.2006.109728
DP  - 2007 Nov 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
PG  - F479--F483
VI  - 92
IP  - 6
4099  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/92/6/F479.short
4100  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/92/6/F479.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed2007 Nov 01; 92
AB  - Objective: To assess growth patterns of 9-year-old children, some of whom had intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR).Method: 75 9-year-old children (41 were IUGR infants) were weighed and measured at birth, at 1 year, at 2 years and at 9 years of age. Using general linear models for continuous data, changes in weight z scores were used to quantify growth rate between birth and 9 years of age.Results: IUGR children were smaller at birth (weight z score –2.1 v 0.2 in normal children; p<0.001) but showed a greater increase in their weight between birth and 9 years (change of weight z score 1.5 v 0.4 in normal children; p = 0.001). At the age of 9 years the weight, height and body mass index (BMI) z scores were lower in IUGR children than the control children (weight z score –0.4 v 0.6, respectively; p<0.001, height z score –0.5 v 0, respectively; p = 0.002, BMI z score −0.2 v 0.7, respectively; p = 0.002). The predictors of these differences were IUGR, birth weight and maternal and paternal heights.Conclusion: IUGR infants grow faster but remain shorter and lighter than their normal counterparts—that is, they fail to fully catch up by 9 years of age.