Assessment of Post-Discharge Growth Pattern After Initial Growth Faltering and Its Association with the Neurodevelopment Status in Preterm Infants: A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preterm infants are at risk of growth faltering at term age. Our primary objective is to assess post-discharge growth patterns in these infants and investigate the association between growth faltering and neurodevelopment.

Methods

We divided the sample into two groups according to growth during the initial hospital stay: infants who suffered from growth faltering (GF, loss of >1 weight z-score from birth to 36 weeks postmenstrual age, n = 115) and infants who did not suffer from GF (non-growth faltering, NGF, n = 85).

Results

The NFG group weight z-score was significantly lower at 36 postmenstrual ages (PMA) compared to birth (p < 0.001), at 1-year corrected age (CA), it was significantly higher than at birth (p = 0.0026), and by 2 years CA, t

SUBMITTER: Castro AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12787592 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature