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Evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age

INTRODUCTION: Growth and development monitoring could lead to general judgment about children's health. With advances in NICUs establishment, the survival rate of very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates has increased in many countries including Iran. Because of the lack of studies about growth an...

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Autores principales: Abdeyazdan, Zahra, Ehsanpour, Soheila, Hemmati, Elahe
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250368
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139688
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author Abdeyazdan, Zahra
Ehsanpour, Soheila
Hemmati, Elahe
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description INTRODUCTION: Growth and development monitoring could lead to general judgment about children's health. With advances in NICUs establishment, the survival rate of very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates has increased in many countries including Iran. Because of the lack of studies about growth and development pattern of low birth weight (LBW) and VLBW neonates in Iran, the present study aimed to compare growth and development of normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a cross- sectional descriptive study, 214 children with age 18 months were enrolled (90 LBW, 90 LBW and 34 VLBW) and their growth and development were assessed. Data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire including anthropometrics measures and developmental key points. Data analyzed by descriptive (mean and SD) and inferential (ANOVA) tests using SPSS version 15. RESULTS: There were significant differences in the mean of anthropometric indexes between three groups. Majority of subjects in three groups had normal weight growth trend. Mean scores of gross motor and fine motor development indexes had significant association with birth weight. Meanwhile, there was no significant association between mean scores of social/cognitive and also language developmental aspects and birth weight. CONCLUSION: Findings revealed that in LBW and VLBW children, growth indexes at the age of 18 months are so far from those of NBW neonates. Further nationwide prospective studies, with a longer period of time is needed to estimate when Iranian LBW children reach at the levels of NBW ones.
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spelling pubmed-41650972014-09-23 Evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age Abdeyazdan, Zahra Ehsanpour, Soheila Hemmati, Elahe J Educ Health Promot Original Article INTRODUCTION: Growth and development monitoring could lead to general judgment about children's health. With advances in NICUs establishment, the survival rate of very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates has increased in many countries including Iran. Because of the lack of studies about growth and development pattern of low birth weight (LBW) and VLBW neonates in Iran, the present study aimed to compare growth and development of normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a cross- sectional descriptive study, 214 children with age 18 months were enrolled (90 LBW, 90 LBW and 34 VLBW) and their growth and development were assessed. Data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire including anthropometrics measures and developmental key points. Data analyzed by descriptive (mean and SD) and inferential (ANOVA) tests using SPSS version 15. RESULTS: There were significant differences in the mean of anthropometric indexes between three groups. Majority of subjects in three groups had normal weight growth trend. Mean scores of gross motor and fine motor development indexes had significant association with birth weight. Meanwhile, there was no significant association between mean scores of social/cognitive and also language developmental aspects and birth weight. CONCLUSION: Findings revealed that in LBW and VLBW children, growth indexes at the age of 18 months are so far from those of NBW neonates. Further nationwide prospective studies, with a longer period of time is needed to estimate when Iranian LBW children reach at the levels of NBW ones. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4165097/ /pubmed/25250368 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139688 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Abdeyazdan Z. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age
title_fullStr Evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age
title_short Evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age
title_sort evaluation of growth and development pattern in normal, low and very low birth weight neonates at 18 months of age
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250368
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.139688
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