A holistic approach to infant growth assessment considers clinical, social and genetic factors rather than an assessment of weight at a set timepoint

Affiliations

• ¹ Community Health Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. tfenton@ucalgary.ca.
• ² Nutrition Services, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada. tfenton@ucalgary.ca.
• ³ Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA, USA.
• ⁴ Community Health Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ⁵ Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ⁶ Saskatchewan Health Authority, Nutrition and Food Services, Regina, SK, Canada.
• ⁷ University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
• ⁸ Pediatrics and Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁹ Paediatrics and Institute of HPME, University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ¹¹ Neonatology, University of Liege, CHU de Liege, Liege, Belgium.
• ¹² Clínica del Country, Universidad el Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia.
• ¹³ Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ¹⁴ Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁵ Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand.