Percent Body Fat Content Measured by Plethysmography in Infants Randomized to High- or Usual-Volume Feeding after Very Preterm Birth

Ariel A Salas; Colm P Travers; Maggie L Jerome; Paula Chandler-Laney; Waldemar A Carlo

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.11.028

Percent Body Fat Content Measured by Plethysmography in Infants Randomized to High- or Usual-Volume Feeding after Very Preterm Birth

J Pediatr. 2021 Mar:230:251-254.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.11.028. Epub 2020 Nov 25.

Authors

Ariel A Salas¹, Colm P Travers², Maggie L Jerome³, Paula Chandler-Laney³, Waldemar A Carlo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL. Electronic address: asalas@peds.uab.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
³ Department of Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

Abstract

We measured percent body fat by air-displacement plethysmography in 86 infants born at <32 weeks of gestation randomized to receive either high-volume (180-200 mL/kg/day) or usual volume feeding (140-160 mL/kg/day). High-volume feeding increased percent body fat by ≤2% at 36 weeks of postmenstrual age (within a predefined range of equivalence). TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClincialTrials.gov: NCT02377050.

Keywords: anthropometric measurements; body composition; body fat; clinical trial; neonatal adiposity; postnatal growth; premature infants.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adipose Tissue / anatomy & histology*
Female
Gestational Age
Humans
Infant Formula*
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Male
Plethysmography
Premature Birth

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ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT02377050

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