* A longitudinal study on the catch-up growth of preterm and term infants of low, appropriate, and high birth weight.
- The purpose of present study was to explore the trajectories of growth of preterm and term infants of low, high, and appropriate birth weight. A total of 2465 infants were recruited from 2005 to 2007. Infants' length and weight were measured at 12 points: birth, 42 days, and monthly from 3 to 12 months. The catch-up growth of preterm infants, measured by weight or length of chronological age, occurred from 10th or 12th month of their lives. After adjusted gestational age, preterm infants' weight and length were caught-up from the adjusted birthday, overweight/over-length even occurred from 10th/11th month. For low birth weight term infants, catch-up growth was not found when using single weight or length. The ponderal index catch-up growth occurred earlier than measured by single weight or length. The catch-down growth of high birth weight term infants was not found in the first year of their lives.
=>茂み, 成長, 増加, 発展, 栽培, 腫よう, 成長物
Overview of noun growth
The noun growth has 7 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (37) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of
an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an
organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of
osseous development in children")
2. (20) growth -- (a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture")
3. (3) increase, increment, growth -- (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or
more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population")
4. (3) growth -- (vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt
grass")
5. (1) emergence, outgrowth, growth -- (the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage
the emergence of sculpture in Greece")
6. growth -- ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
7. growth -- (something grown or growing; "a growth of hair")
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