Failure to thrive: the prevalence and concurrence of anthropometric criteria in a general infant population

E M Olsen; J Petersen; A M Skovgaard; B Weile; T Jørgensen; C M Wright

doi:10.1136/adc.2005.080333

Failure to thrive: the prevalence and concurrence of anthropometric criteria in a general infant population

E M Olsen, J Petersen, A M Skovgaard, B Weile, T Jørgensen, C M Wright

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Abstract

Failure to thrive (FTT) in early childhood is associated with subsequent developmental delay and is recognised to reflect relative undernutrition. Although the concept of FTT is widely used, no consensus exists regarding a specific definition, and it is unclear to what extent different anthropometric definitions concur.

Original language	English
Journal	Archives of Disease in Childhood
Volume	92
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	109-14
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0003-9888
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2005.080333
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2007

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