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Very low birth weight (VLBW; < 1500 g) infants account for 1% of births in the developed world, but greater than half of the neonatal mortality rate. Advances in neonatal intensive care have resulted in a significant increase in survival of VLBW infants. As survival has increased, greater attention has focused on the nutrition and growth of these babies. The ability to estimate body composition is of central importance to these studies. Chemical analysis has shown that newborn babies differ greatly from adults in terms of body composition, and that this difference increases with degree of prematurity1,2.
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Wilson, D.C., Day, J.M.E., Hamilton, A., McClure, G., Davies, P.S.W. (1993). Noninvasive Methods of Body Composition Analysis in Preterm Infants:- Comparison with Dilution of 2H2 18O. In: Ellis, K.J., Eastman, J.D. (eds) Human Body Composition. Basic Life Sciences, vol 60. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1268-8_30
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