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  • Title: High and low birth weight and its implication for growth and bone development in childhood and adolescence.
    Author: Fricke O, Semler O, Stabrey A, Tutlewski B, Remer T, Herkenrath P, Schoenau E.
    Journal: J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab; 2009 Jan; 22(1):19-30. PubMed ID: 19344071.
    Abstract:
    AIM: To investigate the relationship of birth weight (BW) to anthropometric measures, local body composition and bone development. POPULATION AND METHODS: 284 individuals (age 5-19 yr, 145 females) were recruited from the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed (DONALD) study. Parameters of bone development (cortical bone mineral density [BMDcort], endosteal circumference [CE]) and of local body composition (cross-sectional fat area [FA]) were analyzed by pQCT at the forearm. Parameters were transformed into SD scores to adjust for age or height. RESULTS: BW predicted weight-SDS (R = 0.221), height-SDS (R = 0.260) and FA-SDS (R = 0.150). Individuals with lower BW (< 10th percentile) had lower weight-SDS (p < 0.01), height-SDS (p < 0.01), BMDcort-SDS (p = 0.02) and higher CE-SDS (p = 0.05). BMDcort was correlated with BW (r = -0.319) and FA (r = -0.283) in pubertal females. CONCLUSION: BW is characterized by direct and indirect effects on growth, body composition and bone development.
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