New Insights in Early Growth of Premature Infants: Lifelong Health Programming
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 4167
Special Issue Editor
Interests: growth pattern; body composition; premature infant; early nutrition; long-term health; obesity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Evidence suggests that early infants’ growth patterns may predict long-term health.
The effect of early nutrition and growth, and specifically the determination of the optimal time and rate of catch-up growth, could represent key factors in the comprehension of the mechanisms predisposing the risk of obesity in childhood or puberty.
Given that there is no agreement about the optimal evaluation methodologies, it is necessary to standardize such methodologies to be used in the early peri- and post-natal period which represent a key time window in terms of the lifelong health programming of preterm infants.
The dynamic evaluation of anthropometry and body composition related to early nutrition could be useful to establish certain catch-up growth patterns, possibly associated to long-term health diseases.
Pursuing this aim, this Special Issue will include manuscripts focused on the standardization of the methodologies for the early evaluation of preterm infants in order to better follow-up their early postnatal growth, body composition and early nutrition.
Dr. Paola Roggero
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- growth pattern
- body composition
- premature infant
- early nutrition
- long-term health
- obesity
