Nutritional status at age 1 year in patients born with esophageal atresia: A population-based, prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite recent progress in caring for patients born with esophageal atresia (EA), undernutrition and stunting remain common. Our study objective was to assess nutritional status in the first year after birth with EA and to identify factors associated with growth failure.

Study design

We conducted a population-based study of all infants born in France with EA between 2010 and 2016. Through the national EA register, we collected prenatal to 1 year follow-up data. We used body mass index and length-for-age ratio Z scores to define patients who were undernourished and stunted, respectively. Factors with P < 0.20 in univariate analyses were retained in a logistic regression model.

Results

Among 1,154 patients born with EA, body mass index and length-for-ag

SUBMITTER: Depoortere S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387303 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature