Relation between changes in weight parameters and height parameters in prepubertal children: daily weight gain and BMIi changes in relation to linear growth during nutritional rehabilitation of underweight children.

Background: Early detection of abnormal weight loss or gain in childhood may be important for preventive purposes. Variable growth response to nutrition rehabilitation have been reported in children with failure to thrive (FTT) who do not have any chronic disease or systematic illness due to different clinical and nutritional approach in their management.

Aim Of The Study: To analyze the association of different body mass index (BMI) and BMI- SDS, to linear growth (Ht-SDS) in different BMI categories of prepubertal children.