PMID: 9440369Jan 24, 1998Paper

Cross-cultural patterns of growth and nutritional status of breast-fed infants

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Kathryn G Dewey

Abstract

Growth patterns and iron status of infants who were breast-fed throughout their first year of life were examined in four populations: 1) a group of high socioeconomic status in California (the DARLING Study), 2) infants of normal birth weight (NBW) but from low-income families in Honduras, 3) low-birth-weight (LBW), full-term infants in Honduras, and 4) infants in Ghana. z Scores were calculated by using both the current National Center for Health Statistics reference data and a pooled data set based on breast-fed infants in six industrialized countries. The NBW infants in Honduras showed rapid growth in the first few months and were similar in weight-for-age to the DARLING infants until approximately 9 mo. By contrast, the LBW infants remained far below the other cohorts throughout the first 12 mo, despite an initial period of catch-up growth. In the Ghanaian infants, weight-for-age faltered beginning at 3-4 mo, but length-for-age did not falter until after 9 mo. Weight-for-length was highest in the NBW Honduran infants and lowest in the Ghanaian infants. When z scores were adjusted for birth weight and maternal height, no significant faltering was evident in either weight or length in any of the cohorts during the first 12 mo...Continue Reading

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