Patterns of early life somatic growth in infants and children with a history of chronic lung disease of prematurity

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OBJECTIVE: Preterm infants, and especially those with additional comorbidities, are at risk of early life growth failure, which may impact postnatal lung growth and attainment of peak lung function. However, little is known about the early life growth patterns of those with chronic lung disease. The goal of this study was to describe the patterns appreciated in this population and their association with certain clinical characteristics.

STUDY DESIGN: Demographic, clinical characteristics, and somatic growth parameters between birth and 3 years were retrospectively reviewed for a cohort of children (n = 616) recruited from an outpatient pulmonary clinic. Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify unique longitudinal trajectories for each growth parameter. Demographic and clinical characteristics were compared using nonparametric analysis.

RESULTS: Four distinct trajectories were appreciated in all three somatic growth domains (weight, length, and weight-for-length), which demonstrated a sizable proportion of subjects with a z-score below zero at 36 months of age, suggesting that the traditional preterm paradigm of "catch-up" growth may not be accurate for this population.

CONCLUSIONS: Children with a history of chronic lung disease begin life with somatic growth measurements well below their term peers and display heterogeneous patterns of weight and length growth through the first 3 years of life. Future studies should focus on further understanding the relationship between somatic growth and respiratory outcomes in this population, which will ideally allow for the use of somatic growth measures as surrogate markers to identify individuals at the highest risk of postnatal growth failure and poor respiratory outcomes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

Enthalten in:

Pediatric pulmonology - 58(2023), 9 vom: 21. Sept., Seite 2592-2599

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Aoyama, Brianna C [VerfasserIn]
McGrath-Morrow, Sharon A [VerfasserIn]
Psoter, Kevin J [VerfasserIn]
Collaco, Joseph M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Chronic lung disease of prematurity
Growth
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.08.2023

Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ppul.26560

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358517478