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Multicenter Study
. 2015 Aug;8(4):330-3.
doi: 10.1111/cts.12283. Epub 2015 Jun 5.

Standardization of Research-Quality Anthropometric Measurement of Infants and Implementation in a Multicenter Study

Christine Coburn-Miller  1 , Susan Casey  2 , Quynh Luong  3 , Natalia Cameron  3 , Jasna Hocevar-Trnka  3 , Daniel H Leung  4 , Daniel Gelfond  5 , James E Heubi  6 , Bonnie Ramsey  2   3   7 , Drucy Borowitz  1   8
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Multicenter Study

Standardization of Research-Quality Anthropometric Measurement of Infants and Implementation in a Multicenter Study

Christine Coburn-Miller et al. Clin Transl Sci. 2015 Aug.

Abstract

Malnutrition is one of the earliest clinical manifestations of cystic fibrosis (CF) and is associated with poorer pulmonary and cognitive outcomes and survival later in life. Infant growth can be a responsive measure for clinical research in this age group if obtained and characterized accurately. We report here the methods to standardize and implement research-quality anthropometric measurement of infants with cystic fibrosis in the Baby Observational Nutrition Study multicenter trial.

Keywords: anthropometrics; cystic fibrosis; infants; methodology; nutrition.

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