Malnutrition and Growth Retardation in Newborn Infants

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-444
Author(s):  
HERBERT C. MILLER ◽  
JAMES F. JEKEL
Keyword(s):  
Growth Retardation ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Intrauterine Growth Retardation ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Intrauterine Growth ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

Pediatricians in the United States recognize growth and development as a distinguishing feature of their specialty. They have demonstrated their concern for growth retardation and malnutrition in all age groups, but they have been misguided in diagnosing these two conditions in newborn infants. It is said that the Denver birth weight chart, sanctioned by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the standard most widely used in this country for diagnosing intrauterine growth retardation in newborn infants. The contributions to our understanding of intrauterine growth retardation by Lubchenco and her colleagues are well recognized, but there is need for expansion of present knowledge.

Letters to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1001-1001
Author(s):  
S. GORHAM BABSON ◽  
JOHN KANGAS ◽  
NORTON YOUNG ◽  
JAMES L. BRAMHALL
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Gestational Age ◽  
Growth Retardation ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Intrauterine Growth Retardation ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Intrauterine Growth ◽  
Comparable Level

We appreciate Dr. Pick's interest in our paper on dissimilar sized twins. It may be as Dr. Pick suggests that some infants of small birth weight for their gestational age grow and develop "normally." Our study has demonstrated the failure of the undersized member of twin pairs to achieve a comparable level of growth and development to that of the co-twin at the time of the study examination. The reasons for this continued disproportion in size are not clear. Further studies are necessary to relate all possible factors concerned in intrauterine growth retardation with the subsequent development of the child.

Growth and Development of Full-Term Nonasphyxiated Small-for-Gestational-Age Newborns: Follow-up Through Adolescence

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Westwood ◽  
Michael S. Kramer ◽  
Diane Munz ◽  
Joan M. Lovett ◽  
Gordon V. Watters
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Gestational Age ◽  
Growth Retardation ◽  
Small For Gestational Age ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Intrauterine Growth Retardation ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Intrauterine Growth ◽  
Parental Height

Previous studies of growth and development in small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants have been plagued by several methodologic defects, including a lack of control for socioeconomic status and parental height and an inability to distinguish among the effects of prematurity, neonatal asphyxia, and intrauterine growth retardation. An attempt has been made to overcome these defects in a study of 33 full-term, nonasphyxiated small-for-gestational-age neonates born between 1960 and 1966 and 33 matched control infants of normal birth weight. The infants were followed up and compared for physical growth and sexual, neurologic, and cognitive development at ages 13 to 19 years. Significant deficits in height, weight, and head circumference were found among the SGA cohort, even after statistical adjustment for differences in socioeconomic status and parental height. Sexual development and bone age were not delayed in the SGA group, however, indicating that the deficits in growth are permanent. On neurologic and cognitive testing, the SGA group had trends toward lower scores but scores were well within the normal range. It is concluded that full-term nonasphyxiated SGA infants have an impaired potential for physical growth, but a good prognosis for neurologic and cognitive development. Previous findings of more severe cognitive deficits are attributed to a failure to distinguish the effects of isolated intrauterine growth retardation from effects due to asphyxia.

Imbalance in the system L-arginin-NO in pathogenesis of obstetric complications and intrauterine growth retardation (Literature review)

2016 ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
O.V. Basystyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Growth Retardation ◽  
Intrauterine Growth Retardation ◽  
Obstetric Complications ◽  
Pathogenetic Role ◽  
Intrauterine Growth ◽  
System L ◽  
Nitric Oxide Deficiency

The data of domestic and foreign literature on etiology, pathogenesis and intrauterine growth retardation diagnosis are presented in the paper. It highlights pathogenetic role of nitric oxide deficiency in case of obstetric complications and intrauterine growth retardation. Key words: intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), system L-arginin–NO, obstetric complications.

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