Postnatal nutritional intakes and hyperglycemia as determinants of blood pressure at 6.5 years of age in children born extremely preterm.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse developmental programming by early-life exposures might account for higher blood pressure (BP) in children born extremely preterm. We assessed associations between nutrition, growth and hyperglycemia early in infancy, and BP at 6.5 years of age in children born extremely preterm.

Methods

Data regarding perinatal exposures including nutrition, growth and glycemia status were collected from the Extremely Preterm Infants in Sweden Study (EXPRESS), a population-based cohort including infants born <27 gestational weeks during 2004-2007. BP measurements were performed at 6.5 years of age in a sub-cohort of 171 children (35% of the surviving children).

Results

Higher mean daily protein intake (+1 g/kg/day) during postnatal weeks 1-8 was associated with 0.4

SUBMITTER: Zamir I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6760565 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature