%0 Journal Article
%T Normalizaci¨®n de la densidad mineral ¨®sea en ni£¿os nacidos prematuros en Vi£¿a del Mar, Chile
%A Milinarsky
%A A¨ªda
%A Fischer
%A Sylvia
%A Giadrosich
%A Vinka
%A Torres
%A Mar¨ªa Teresa
%A Arriagada
%A Marina
%A Arinoviche
%A Roberto
%A Casanova
%A Dunny
%J Revista m¨¦dica de Chile
%D 2007
%I Sociedad M¨¦dica de Santiago
%R 10.4067/S0034-98872007001200007
%X background: in a previous study we reported that healthy children born at 34 or fewer gestational weeks, with adequate weight for gestational age, had not completed their bone catch-up at mean age of 6.3 years. aim: this is a follow up report, performed on the same population one year later to determine at which age premature - born children achieve their bone mineral density (bmd) catch-up, compared to term-born controls. material and methods: fifteen children mean age 7years 3 months, born at 25 to 34 weeks of gestation, with a birth weight of 740 to 2.200 g were studied radius, lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density, whole body bone mineral content and body composition were assessed by dexa. results: height, body mass index, peripheral bmd, axial bmd, fat and lean body mass in these children were not different from term born controls. conclusions: premature born children with adequate weight for gestational age, achieved peripheral and axial bone mineral density catch-up at the age of 7 to 8 years
%K body mass index
%K bone density
%K infant
%K premature.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-98872007001200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en