Serial assessment of fat and fat-free mass accretion in very preterm infants: a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinicians could modify dietary interventions during early infancy by monitoring fat and fat-free mass accretion in very preterm infants.

Methods

Preterm infants were randomly assigned to either having reports on infant body composition available to the clinicians caring for them (intervention group) or not having reports available (control group). All infants underwent serial assessments of body composition by air-displacement plethysmography before 32 weeks of postmenstrual age (PMA) and at 36 weeks PMA. The primary outcome was percent body fat (%BF) at 3 months of corrected age (CA).

Results

Fifty infants were randomized (median gestational age: 30 weeks; mean ± SD birth weight: 1387 ± 283 g). The mean %BF increased from 7 ± 4 before 32 weeks PMA to 20 ±

SUBMITTER: Salas AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7581604 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature