Postnatal catch-up growth in term newborns with altered fetal weight patterns. The GROWIN study.

Background: Small for gestational age (SGA) perform a postnatal catch-up growth to recover their genetic trajectory. We studied the postnatal catch-up growth pattern of fetuses born with an appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) weight but with fetal growth deceleration (FGD) to explore whether they catch up.

Methods: Nine hundred and sixty-six newborns at Villalba University General Hospital (HUGV), were followed from 34 to 37 weeks to birth.

Unhealthy food advertising. A position paper by the AEP Committee on Nutrition and Breastfeeding.

Introduction: Some important factors influencing and maintaining unhealthy habits are food advertising and products accessibility. In order to develop and support recommendations, an analysis of the available evidence on the impact of food advertising on the health of children and adolescents has been carried out.

Methods: Literature review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses published up to January 2022 for the term "food advertising" that analyzed the impact of food advertising on weight, body mass index (BMI), adiposity, dietary intake, behavior toward the advertised product, its purchase or consumption in children and adolescents.

Low mortality in necrotizing enterocolitis associated with coagulase-negative Staphylococcus infection.

The aim of this study was to correlate the clinical course of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) with infection by coagulase-negative Staphylococcus at the onset of the illness. Records of all newborn infants developing NEC between January 1998 and December 2001 were reviewed. NEC was classified according to the criteria of Bell et al.