Application of the Dutch, Finnish and British Screening Guidelines in a Cohort of Children with Growth Failure

Aims: To evaluate three guidelines for selecting short children for diagnostic workup in a general pediatric clinic. Methods: All patients (n = 131) aged 3.00-9.99 years who were referred for growth failure to a general pediatric clinic were evaluated for their medical history and growth and examined. All of them underwent the same standardized...

Evidence-based guidelines for growth monitoring

Guidelines for growth monitoring can be established according to two approaches. According to the clinical approach, health workers are expected to base their assessment on the cumulative information from the medical history, physical examination and growth against a background of knowledge about the possible causes. The second approach is that...

Identifying young children without overweight at high risk for adult overweight: The Terneuzen Birth Cohort

Objective. To develop a tool to identify children with high risk of adult overweight (AO), especially before developing overweight, based on body mass index (BMI) standard deviation score(s) (SDS) changes between 2-6 years (y) of age. Methods. We fitted a linear spline model to BMI SDS of 762 young Caucasian adults from the Terneuzen Birth...

Malnutrition in critically ill children: From admission to 6 months after discharge

Background & Aims: Little is known about the nutritional status of critically ill children during hospitalisation in and after discharge from an intensive care unit. We set up a prospective, observational study to evaluate the nutritional status of children in an intensive care unit from admission up to 6 months after discharge. A secondary aim...