Document Type
Article
Journal Title
Children
Publication Date
2025
Volume
12
Abstract
Preterm birth represents a nutritional emergency and a sudden dissociation of the maternal-placental-fetal unit that regulates metabolic and endocrine physiology. Growth demonstrates health and is a signal of physiological well-being. Growth is expensive for a critically ill infant and possible only after other homeostasis energy demands are met. Despite an expert-stated goal that preterm infants should grow at a similar rate to their gestational age-matched fetal counterparts, this is not the reality for many preterm infants. Other investigators have proposed new metrics for growth quality in the neonatal intensive care unit. This review discusses growth assessment and standards in very-low-birth-weight infants and attempts to address the knowledge gap of which growth metrics are the most important to monitor.
DOI Link
ISSN
2227-9067
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Recommended Citation
McNelis, Kera; Thoene, Melissa; Huff, Katie A.; Fu, Ting Ting; Alja'nini, Zaineh; and Viswanathan, Sreekanth, "Postnatal Growth Assessment of the Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infant" (2025). Journal Articles: Pediatrics. 49.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/com_peds_articles/49
