Growth in high risk infants < 1500 g birthweight during the first 5 weeks

Early Human Development

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 645-650

  Loui, A ^a   Tsalikaki, E ^a   Maier, K ^a   Walch, E ^a   Kamarianakis, Y ^a,b   Obladen, M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic lung disease; CLD; Dexamethasone; Growth curves; Growth retardation; Knemometry; LLL; Lower leg length; Nutrition; Preterm infant; Very low birth weight infant; VLBW infant

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; INDOMETACIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH RATE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; LEG LENGTH; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN INTAKE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

BODY WEIGHT; DEXAMETHASONE; EATING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 53049097146     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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