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Body Weight , Failure to Thrive/diagnosis , Child, Preschool , Humans , Infant , Reference Values , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
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.
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Failure to Thrive/diagnosis , Aging/physiology , Anthropometry , Birth Weight , Body Weight , Child, Preschool , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Reference Values , Terminology as TopicSubject(s)
Anemia, Hypochromic , Adolescent , Anemia, Hypochromic/diagnosis , Hemoglobins/analysis , Humans , Infant , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
Children aged at least 4 years admitted to hospital with acute abdominal pain, excluding appendicitis, were investigated for the presence of viruses. Out of 181 children 29 were found with viruses of whom 18 had nonspecific abdominal pain. Eight others were found to have virus-like particles on electron microscopical examination of their faeces. Virus infections contribute to a small extent to nonspecific abdominal pain in childhood, but in many cases the cause remains unknown.
