Longitudinal assessment of growth in children born to mothers with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Article Abstract:

Babies born to HIV-infected mothers may be smaller and weigh less than average for their age and those who are infected remain so. Researchers periodically measured weight, length, and head circumference on 109 children born to HIV-infected mothers between birth and 70 months. Fifty-nine children were infected with HIV. Average birth weights of both infected and non-infected children were below the 50th percentile for the general population. However, uninfected children achieved the 50th percentile for weight by 24 months old, whereas HIV-infected children remained below the 50th percentile. Length-for-age was also below the 50th percentile in both groups. By 40 months the uninfected children had achieved the 50th percentile for height, but HIV-infected children remained below the 50th percentile.

HIV infection in children, Pediatric HIV infections

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Use of segmental measures to estimate stature in children with cerebral palsy

Article Abstract:

Limb-length measurements apparently can be used as substitutions for height measurements to evaluate growth in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Because of the effect of CP on muscles, bones, and joints, and the mental disability that sometimes accompanies CP, it is often difficult to measure height. Measurements were taken of the length of the upper arm bone, the lower leg bone, and the top of the knee to the bottom of the foot in 172 children with CP. All children were free of factors that would prevent obtaining accurate comparison measures of standing height or full recumbent length using a special measurement table. Comparison of stature and calculations based on limb measurements agreed within 3% on all three types of limb measurements.

Measurement, Cerebral palsy, Stature, Body height

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Growth of Hmong children

Article Abstract:

Hmong children in the U.S. may be somewhat smaller than the average for American children. Researchers analyzed the growth rate and actual length and weight of 579 Hmong children ages newborn to five years seen at a U.S. family practice clinic. Hmong children were shorter than average and remained heavier for their height through age five. Their shorter height may be partly due to genetics, and partly due to environment and nutrition. Standard growth curves are still useful for assessing the growth of Hmong children. The Hmong people are originally from Southeast Asia.

Hmong (Asian people), Hmong

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