The relationship of newborn adiposity to fetal growth outcome based on birth weight or the modified neonatal growth assessment score.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(1) Develop reference ranges of neonatal adiposity using air displacement plethysmography. (2) Use new reference ranges for neonatal adiposity to compare two different methods of evaluating neonatal nutritional status.

Methods

Three hundred and twenty-four normal neonates (35-41 weeks post-menstrual age) had body fat (%BF) and total fat mass (FM, g) measured using air displacement plethysmography shortly after delivery. Results were stratified for 92 of these neonates with corresponding fetal biometry using two methods for classifying nutritional status: (1) population-based weight percentiles; and (2) a modified neonatal growth assessment score (m(3)NGAS(51)).

Results

At the 50th percentile, %BF varied from 7.7% (35 weeks) to 11.8% (41 weeks), while the co

SUBMITTER: Lee W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3930167 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature