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Differences in intrauterine growth result in newborn infants who are small, appropriate or large body weight for gestational age1,2. Bone mineral studies in smallfor-gestational-infants have demonstrated decreased bone mineralization when compared to appropriate-size infants3,4. However, there is no study on bone mineral status of large-for-gestational-age-infants. Until the advent of dual X-ray absorptiometry, body composition analyses in pediatric subjects was limited. We therefore studied different-sized newborn infants with gestational ages between 36 and 41 weeks and evaluated both bone and body fat using the dual X-ray method.
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Chan, G.M., Zhang, H. (1993). Bone Status and Body Fat of Healthy Newborn Caucasian Infants. 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_36
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