Postnatal growth in extremely low birth weight newborns: nature or nurture?

Fu-Sheng Chou¹, Vishal Pandey^{2

3

4}, Hung-Wen Yeh^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA. FChou@llu.edu.
² Division of Neonatology, Children's Mercy-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
⁵ Division of Health Services and Outcomes Research, Children's Mercy-Kansas City, Kansas, City, MO, USA.

Comment

Fu-Sheng Chou et al. J Perinatol. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;41(3):648-649.

doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-0737-7. Epub 2020 Jul 17.

Fu-Sheng Chou¹, Vishal Pandey^{2

3

4}, Hung-Wen Yeh^{4

5}

¹ Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA. FChou@llu.edu.
² Division of Neonatology, Children's Mercy-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
⁵ Division of Health Services and Outcomes Research, Children's Mercy-Kansas City, Kansas, City, MO, USA.

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Comment in

A holistic approach to infant growth assessment considers clinical, social and genetic factors rather than an assessment of weight at a set timepoint.
Fenton TR, Goldberg D, Alshaikh B, Nasser R, Hay WW, Groh-Wargo S, Shah PS, Taylor S, Senterre T, Hoyos A, Embleton N, Rochow N, Bloomfield F. Fenton TR, et al. J Perinatol. 2021 Mar;41(3):650-651. doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-00785-x. Epub 2020 Aug 13. J Perinatol. 2021. PMID: 32792632 No abstract available.

"Extrauterine growth restriction" and "postnatal growth failure" are misnomers for preterm infants.
Fenton TR, Cormack B, Goldberg D, Nasser R, Alshaikh B, Eliasziw M, Hay WW, Hoyos A, Anderson D, Bloomfield F, Griffin I, Embleton N, Rochow N, Taylor S, Senterre T, Schanler RJ, Elmrayed S, Groh-Wargo S, Adamkin D, Shah PS. Fenton TR, et al. J Perinatol. 2020 May;40(5):704-714. doi: 10.1038/s41372-020-0658-5. Epub 2020 Mar 25. J Perinatol. 2020. PMID: 32214217 Review.

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