Perinatal growth and nutrition [
"Preface Humans, like all mammals, have an inborn desire to nurture and suckle their young and the act of feeding is important for the bonding between mother and child. The birth of a critically ill preterm infant disrupts this, but for a mother, the use of her milk to feed her infant may be th...
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, Florida :
CRC Press ,
c2014
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| Online Access: | Crcnetbase |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Growth charts for preterm infants and related tools for growth monitoring
- 2. Assessment of short- and medium-term outcomes in preterm infants
- 3. Causes of postnatal growth failure in preterm infants
- 4. Fetal and postnatal growth, and the risks of metabolic syndrome in the AGA and SGA term infant
- 5. Effect of postnatal growth in the large-for-gestational-age infants
- 6. Postnatal growth failure in preterm infants : metabolic outcomes
- 7. Postnatal growth in preterm infants : neurodevelopmental effects
- 8. Assessing nutritional requirements for preterm infants
- 9. Meeting nutritional goals : computer-aided prescribing of enteral and parenteral nutrition
- 10. Customize or generalize? or the imperfect art of fortifying human milk
- 11. Customized fortification of human milk
- 12. Mathematical description of postnatal growth : Z-scores and statistical control process analysis