Recognising failure to thrive in early childhood.
Open Access
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 65 (11) , 1263-1265
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.65.11.1263
Abstract
The maximum weight centile achieved by a child between 4 and 8 weeks of age was found to be a better predictor of the centile at 12 months than the birth weight centile. Children whose weight deviated two or more major centiles below this maximum weight centile for a month or more showed significant anthropometric differences during the second year of life from those who showed no such deviation. It is suggested that this leads to a logical and practical definition of failure to thrive.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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